E3 2005: 360 Running at One-Third Power.

[Flawless]

So we've been seeing the Xbox 120?

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/615/615667p1.html

[jmood88]

Re: E3 2005: 360 Running at One-Third Power.

Hmmmmmmmmm. I really wonder why microsoft didn't get a few more games that show that actual capabilities of the 360.

[EViL2uCe]

Re: E3 2005: 360 Running at One-Third Power.

well, thats a whole lot more comforting....

[Flawless]

Re: E3 2005: 360 Running at One-Third Power.

Of course this isn't any new info, pretty much everbody knew this was the case already. The games still look impressive.

Microsoft is going about the same way they did with the Xbox. The GPU was not ready back at E3 in 2001, but this time the CPU and GPU haven't been sent to developers yet.

These kits lack a complete CPU at proper speed as well as the R500 GPU, this can't be emulated, because there is nothing that exists like it. These games are not running with full shaders, polygons, or max details.

Alpha kit specs...

Dual-core G5 @ 2GHz and Radeon X850 IIRC

Compared to actual hardware going in the Xbox 360

Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache

10 MB of embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Very big difference

[23]

Re: E3 2005: 360 Running at One-Third Power.

The GPU was not ready back at E3 in 2001, but this time the CPU and GPU haven't been sent to developers yet.

And this is why I was telling all of the doubters on the 2K forum that what they saw wasnt the actual 360 basketball.

[RubenDouglas]

Re: E3 2005: 360 Running at One-Third Power.

HELL. why even have e3 with xbox 360 unveilings.

jezzzzzz