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News: More XBox 2 GPU news...
Posted: 2003-09-09 09:35:47 |
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This graphic chip has been in design for longer than a year at ATI?s Marlborough, Mass. office and much like the Xbox?s nVIDIA GPU, the Xbox 2 graphic chip will also be a custom silicon that will have the R500 as its core technology.
This graphic chip is aimed at the next version of the DirectX API, most probably called DirectX 10, which is already in development and simply code named: DirectX/LH. LH stands for Longhorn, the next major desktop Windows release, which will follow Windows XP.
This same source also told us: ?Microsoft chose ATI not just because the publicly known problems with nVIDIA but also because current technology shows ATI is the real winner when it comes to pixel shaders performance.? Something that is correct, as several publications have put in evidence that ATI?s Radeon 9800 Pro surpasses the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra in most Pixel Shaders 2.0 benchmarks.
?And we all know graphics? future is all about pixel shaders? our source added.
This VPU is being designed with the latest technologies in mind, such as GDDR2 SDRAM provided by Samsung running at 1600 MHz. A 128-bit configuration is capable of providing up to 25.6 GB/s peak bandwidth, while its 256-bit mode brings up to a shocking 51.2GB/s peak bandwidth!!! Samsung?s GDDR2 256-megabit memory will enable graphics memory cards of 512 MB, althought it is impossible to confirm if the Xbox 2 will feature such amount of system memory.
Speculating the Xbox 2 might ship in Christmas 2005, we can be sure its graphic chip will support Pixel Shader 3.0, a model that is a significant improvement over today?s 2.0 version, as well as Vertex Shaders 3.0. This will make the Xbox 2, without a doubt, the most powerful console when it comes to visual performance with a graphic chip that, in hardware terms, is two generations ahead of current technology.
Courtesy of Teamxbox.com
Its just mindblowing, the current figures now. Just imagine 2 yrs from now? Xbox 2 is gonna rule. Watchout PS3.
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Author: Selim Boyunegmez :: 2004-04-22 05:45:30
News: More XBox 2 GPU news...
Posted: 2003-09-09 09:35:47
This graphic chip has been in design for longer than a year at ATI?s Marlborough, Mass. office and much like the Xbox?s nVIDIA GPU, the Xbox 2 graphic chip will also be a custom silicon that will have the R500 as its core technology.
This graphic chip is aimed at the next version of the DirectX API, most probably called DirectX 10, which is already in development and simply code named: DirectX/LH. LH stands for Longhorn, the next major desktop Windows release, which will follow Windows XP.
This same source also told us: ?Microsoft chose ATI not just because the publicly known problems with nVIDIA but also because current technology shows ATI is the real winner when it comes to pixel shaders performance.? Something that is correct, as several publications have put in evidence that ATI?s Radeon 9800 Pro surpasses the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra in most Pixel Shaders 2.0 benchmarks.
?And we all know graphics? future is all about pixel shaders? our source added.
This VPU is being designed with the latest technologies in mind, such as GDDR2 SDRAM provided by Samsung running at 1600 MHz. A 128-bit configuration is capable of providing up to 25.6 GB/s peak bandwidth, while its 256-bit mode brings up to a shocking 51.2GB/s peak bandwidth!!! Samsung?s GDDR2 256-megabit memory will enable graphics memory cards of 512 MB, althought it is impossible to confirm if the Xbox 2 will feature such amount of system memory.
Speculating the Xbox 2 might ship in Christmas 2005, we can be sure its graphic chip will support Pixel Shader 3.0, a model that is a significant improvement over today?s 2.0 version, as well as Vertex Shaders 3.0. This will make the Xbox 2, without a doubt, the most powerful console when it comes to visual performance with a graphic chip that, in hardware terms, is two generations ahead of current technology.
Author: Selim :: 2004-02-05 05:01:11
I saw prototype xbox2 one was like a diskman xbox2.
he was small xbox.
Author: Selim :: 2004-01-14 08:18:20
xbox2 the graphic is sure like a monster
Author: Selim :: 2004-01-14 08:16:27
Xbox2 is smaller ten xbox1
Author: jamie :: 2003-10-19 01:11:26
what will be the diffrents from a ps3 and an xbox2 and what is it them both
Author: torito :: 2003-09-10 13:58:39
imagine the price of our xbox.
Author: xboxizdope :: 2003-09-10 01:01:59
Wow, can you imagine if the Xbox 2 comes out with a 512MB graphics card? It's hard to even imagine what a game could look like with technology like that!
Author: Likwid_Cid :: 2003-09-10 00:52:17
"This will make the Xbox 2, without a doubt, the most powerful console when it comes to visual performance with a graphic chip that, in hardware terms, is two generations ahead of current technology."
This statement here makes it sound like a bunch of hype or just fanboyism. Neither Sony nor Nintendo has released specs on their new console but they are declaring the Xbox 2 as the most powerful console yet?
I'll wait and see. Either way I will get it and the other 2 big consoles but this is just a crap article.
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