Xbox 2 Specs Leaked

[SPARTAN VI]

Sounds expensive... but hell, if financing is available...

[skorp]

Basic Hardware Specifications

Xenon is powered by a 3.5+ GHz IBM PowerPC processor and a 500+ MHz ATI graphics processor. Xenon has 256+ MB of unified memory. Xenon runs a custom operating system based on MS® Windows NT®, similar to the Xbox operating system. The graphics interface is a superset of MS® Direct3D® version 9.0.
CPU

The Xenon CPU is a custom processor based on PowerPC technology. The CPU includes three independent processors (cores) on a single die. Each core runs at 3.5+ GHz. The Xenon CPU can issue two instructions per clock cycle per core. At peak performance, Xenon can issue 21 billion instructions per second.

The Xenon CPU was designed by IBM in close consultation with the Xbox team, leading to a number of revolutionary additions, including a dot product instruction for extremely fast vector math and custom security features built directly into the silicon to prevent piracy and hacking.

Each core has two symmetric hardware threads (SMT), for a total of six hardware threads available to games. Not only does the Xenon CPU include the standard set of PowerPC integer and floating-point registers (one set per hardware thread), the Xenon CPU also includes 128 vector (VMX) registers per hardware thread. This astounding number of registers can drastically improve the speed of common mathematical operations.

Just take it out.

I don't understand about half of those specs....

But it sounds good to me!!!!

[oldi1knoby]

I could care less if it has backwards compatability on games. What, I wanna play Halo on my new Xenon when I could be playing Halo 3? Or whatever is the big new game for this monster of a machine. Quake 4 anyone?!?!

One thing they BETTER do is make the controllers from my Xbox work with the new console. I don't wanna have to buy more controllers when I have two pefectly good working ones here.