World Exclusive: Xbox One (Durango) unveiled

The CPU 8 Core with L1/L2 cache sounds exactly like 2 x VTE multi processors. And the move engine sounds like Oban …

That’s a brilliant design that MisterXMedia has been saying is arriving via “Venus” SoC all along …

Very very cool design … and has the potential for RayTracing amoungst other things!

This does not look that optimistic. It is fine for today’s games, but what about the future? How will this cope in two-three years’ time? Exclusives will probably be acceptable, but multiplatforms will be outclassed by PC versions, considering that upper mainstream PCs are more powerful right now.

I am not saying we should be getting a monster, but this will not be enough.

Holy Smokes! I was expecting Microsoft to ‘Bring the Wood’ but didn’t expect the damn Forest. Those four Move Engines, Wow! I don’t want to confuse people with a lot of Technical Talk, so in layman’s terms, that basically means they are Quadra Pumping the Flop Capacitor out the Ying-Yang.

Cool.
Can’t wait to install Linux on it.

Durango Unchained.

Without 4K output for graphics it is dead within 12 months!

This incorrect(yes incorrect) rumors have several problems. 1. This box would not be backward compatible due to the lack of power to emulate. Currently the real Xbox Durango is 80% compatible with Xbox 360 games. In other word, the CPU is either a PowerPC or something that’s powerful enough to emulate it, think Haswell powerful. 2. The reported Xbox Durango chipset die is whopping 450 mm2 large, bigger than the biggest GPU that AMD has ever designed.

I’m curious, if this site were to be believed, would these stats change your mind?

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/146045-early-rumors-point-to-large-power-gap-between-ps4-and-xbox-720/2

As I see this, having three systems on a chip in the design would make the system an entirely different sort of beast than even the best computers today. Let’s take for example, my pc is a quad core AMD Vision A8 I believe at 2.9ghz for each core with some sort of turbo core feature or something like that. My Graphics card is an AMD Radeon 6970 with DX11 support, 2 gigs of GDDR5 memory and all the normal bells and whistles. While this is not by any means a beast, when you consider the fact that there are now 8 core cpu’s out there as well as much newer graphics cards, this thing is able to make my games look freaking amazing, definitely spanking the PS3 and 360 I own without breaking a sweat, running games like Crysis 2 and The Witcher 2 on the absolute highest settings on my 1080p monitor whereas the same can not be said on the console side, as the PS3 pushes the vast majority of it’s games at only 720p, and the Xbox 360 does push 1080p but due to an up convert or something like that.

The new system as it is explained from the other site, if it were released running in that type configuration should readily destroy the xbox and ps3. Sure, the clock frequency is slower in the majority of the chips, but if the chip is pushing two instructions per clock cycle, that is basically like a dual thread in that you are getting two times the operations per cycle. If the ghz are kept low, I feel that this would be an incredibly good decision on Microsoft’s part to make sure they do not repeat their infamous RRoD. Having the chips run cooler is smart. And when compared to my pc, I would love it if the thing were quiet. People often leave out the issue of noise. My pc is quiet while surfing the web, but once that graphics card starts to heat up, wow, the noise is ruff on the games. It really hurts the mood. If the idea behind those lower frequencies is to avoid this issue, perhaps it is a great idea. Also, I have heard that the cpu is much less important for video games because it isn’t working on visuals, mostly on the AI and non visual stuff. If this is the case, then what is wrong with having an eight core cpu which does two calculations per clock cycle? If the frequency is really 1.6ghz, would that not really mean it would compare to 12.8ghz? If each core of the 360 was around 3ghz, isn’t that basically 9ghz, but since it was dual thread, more like 18ghz? Of course, as I have understood things in the past, you can’t really compare frequencies that way, because a ten year old chip running at 3ghz would not compare to a brand new one running the same frequency due to the amount of items being processed at once per clock cycle. It may turn out that even with the lower frequencies that the new system is capable of doing far more work than the previous system. Of course, there’s also the little detail of just how many cpu’s are available, as the other site claims that it has three SoC’s, and each is supposed to have its own quad core cpu, which if true would make for a dizzying amount of data. Sure, I understood that one SoC would work for the OS itself, meaning the system will more than likely allow for video chatting with multiple friends on live since it provides an entire systems worth of power for the OS itself. I’m fairly certain they are going to allow multiple streams of video for this purpose. But of course that still leaves two SoC’s with higher clock speeds than was reported before. I guess it all depends on if the claims from the other site are trustworthy.

Then there is the idea that there are two SoC dedicated to the games. As I see this, it can mean a few things. One, the system is built from the ground up with 3D in mind. Sure, 3D is suffering due to high cost of the televisions, but if it were to catch on when prices drop, it would be important to have the system able to drive dual images at once. Then there’s the chance that it has nothing to do with 3d but instead is about delivering true split screen gaming, like the WiiU, but without the need for the expensive controller. What better in a console than to be able to play a game like Halo on the one system, but to display the image to two screens? If you have a friend over, having a system that can let you play your game with a friend without having to drop frame rate, or perhaps without loosing the graphics a single player is used to would be incredible. Then of course, there is the third option, the whole thing could be to allow the system the power necessary to drive a game on a 4k screen with all the bells and whistles. If they use the two SoC’s in tandem, the thing could basically run like a dual graphics card setup but with the benefit of each system having a second cpu which may work sort of like an APU or a separate physics engine while the other does the required work.

Mind you, I have no degree in this type field, I am basically just asking/guessing/hoping for this. What I am saying though is that without the whole picture, I think it is a bit premature to judge the system. I learned a lot recently when my Surface tablet arrived. I had so much stress waiting for the thing to arrive, because after ordering it, I heard nothing but bad news, “Oh the surface is junk, the thing is slow, it doesn’t work”, let me tell you, this was all bulls***. The surface is freaking amazing. If people would clear their mind for one minute and stop listening to die hard Apple fans, they would see that the system does everything it was supposed to and does it well. I traded up from my tegra 2 powered asus transformer to this tegra 3 and I absolutely love it. Without a doubt, I am able to do things that I simply could not on my android tablet. The main thing, without a doubt the single most important thing, I am able to do two things at once. Yes, you can say android lets you do ten things at once, but that us crap, the other things are dormant in the background waiting on it’s turn. On the Surface, I can be watching a YouTube video, while setting the second side app on a website, so when I look up info on items I couldn’t find on my first play through of any game like Darksiders 2, I am able to keep the side app on the website with the list of items to collect while watching a video on YouTube on aliens or whatever I want to watch. Not only that, if I click on another YouTube video, it will play it while I have the other on pause, so I can watch some short strategy guide type video without closing the first.

My point is that you should avoid listening to other peoples as the end all source of information. Perhaps the system does not impress on paper, but once the thing releases and people begin to see what all those features mean in reality, it may be much nicer than it sounds on paper.

Paahahaaha! STFU and GTFO! haha