Xbox360 already in production...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/te...CNszPtc1i2QvZw
"In an interview yesterday, Mitch Koch, head of retail sales for Microsoft, declined to say how many consoles Microsoft planned to have available. He did say that production of final Xbox 360 consoles has begun, but would not say precisely when it had started."
Doesn't the Xbox360 have 3 3.2Ghz G5 processors?
If they can already make it now... why can't Apple have 3.2Ghz G5's?
I didn't really know where to put this but I found it interesting.
"In an interview yesterday, Mitch Koch, head of retail sales for Microsoft, declined to say how many consoles Microsoft planned to have available. He did say that production of final Xbox 360 consoles has begun, but would not say precisely when it had started."
Doesn't the Xbox360 have 3 3.2Ghz G5 processors?
If they can already make it now... why can't Apple have 3.2Ghz G5's?
I didn't really know where to put this but I found it interesting.
Comments
Originally posted by Lorre
Doesn't the Xbox360 have 3 3.2Ghz G5 processors?
not really...
Originally posted by tubgirl
not really...
Oh... then what do they have?
Sorry for putting it in the wrong forum, I wasn't too sure about wether or not this had relevance to future Apple products.
To simplify now, XBox 360 will have a triple-core 3.2 GHz PowerPC, but each core is far less complex than in a G5, thus providing this rising in frequency.
Sorry, I'm fairly new to this board, and it's so big...
Ah well, I suppose this thread can be closed then.
Originally posted by BenRoethig
A triple core 3.2ghz G5 would cost about a grand and the thermal signature would probably be visable from space. These are single purpose gaming chips.
That was too funny to go unnoticed.
drool...
I'm gettinga a G5 in October and a 360 in november.
Originally posted by onlooker
That was too funny to go unnoticed.
Imagine the liquid cooling required for a dual 3 core 3.2 Ghz G5 powermac. G5 Refidgerator Edition!
Originally posted by i-am-an-elf
revolution will have dual processors single sore each. They are roughly based on the G5, being from IBM. They are mostly the same as xbox 360. cept it is dual
Rumor, unsubstantiated. And personally I don't believe it either.
Originally posted by BenRoethig
A triple core 3.2ghz G5 would cost about a grand and the thermal signature would probably be visable from space. These are single purpose gaming chips.
I am not sure what single-purpose gaming chips means.
Gaming is probably the most computationally demanding application imaginable.
On the GPU side -
Next gen games features very big graphical datasets, high texture quality, complex shaders and so on.
On the CPU side -
games have to cope with physics simulations, collision detection, and deliver a 60Hz instant interactivity, which would shame a typical "desktop app".
A whole game engine has to shift data around at such a rate that any bottlenecks in data flow screw up games badly.
What I am saying is that good gaming performance normally is indicative of good general performance, because gaming is not a trivial or narrow application. Where things differ is that gaming hardware is often designed with speed (and not ease of programming in mind).
Comparisons between the PowerPC core in the XBox360 and a G5 is not easy. But the earlier Xenon Dev-kits were dual-processor 2GHz G5 Power Macs. I think these were regarded as running at some 60% of the final console hardware.
Carni.
Gaming is probably the most graphically demanding application imaginable.
TFTFY.
What you describe the CPU tasks to be are accurate, but also relative. The PPCs inside the game consoles would be pretty weak substitutes for desktop chips, for example.
They're just different.
Xbox360 already in production...
They mean
"Well, Bill, that's a pretty high pile of hard drives, ain't it?"
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Seems a logical reasoning by El reg.