Xbox 360 Specification

Welcome to the Xbox 360 specification page, this is the technical detail of the Xbox 360 and outlines all of the parts that make up the Xbox 360 and the capabilities that these parts have. If the technical details of the Xbox 360 mean nothing to you then all you need to know is that the Xbox 360 is extremely powerful and will be able to deliver a mind blowing gaming experience, if you were to buy a computer with a similar specification it would cost you £2,000+ so it is incredible that Microsoft have included this kind of power for the price of around £200 (depending on the package that you choose).


So the specification for the Xbox 360 is:

CPU:

• Custom IBM PowerPC based CPU with three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each.
• Two hardware threads per core; a total of six hardware threads.
• 1 MB L2 cache.
• VMX-128 vector unit per core; three in total.
• 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread.


Memory:

• 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM.
• 700 MHz DDR.
• Unified memory architecture.


Memory Bandwidth:

• 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth.
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM.
• 21.6 GB/s front-side bus.


Graphics:

• Custom ATI Graphics 500MHz processor.
• 10 MB of embedded DRAM.
• 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines.
• Unified shader architecture.


CPU Game Maths Performance:

• 9 billion dot product operations per second.


Polygon Performance:

• 500 million triangles per second.


Pixel Fill Rate:

• 16 gigasamples per second fill rate with 4x MSAA.


Shader Performance:

• 48 billion shader operations per second.


Overall System Floating-Point Performance:

• 1 teraflop.


Storage:

• Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive.
• 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM.
• Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB.


I/O:

• Support for four wireless controllers.
• Three USB 2.0 ports.
• Two memory unit slots.


Online Play:
• Instant out of the box access to Xbox Live features using the broadband connection including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content such as trailers and new levels, gamer profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music.
• Built-in Ethernet port.
• Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g.
• Video camera ready.


Media:
• Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD.
• Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based computers.
• Ability to copy music to the Xbox 360 hard drive.
• Custom play lists in every game.
• Built-in Media Centre Extender for Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005.
• Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers.


High Definition:
• All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i with anti-aliasing.
• Standard definition and high definition video output supported.


Audio:
• Multi channel surround sound output.
• Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio.
• 320 independent decompression channels.
• 32-bit audio processing.
• Over 256 audio channels.


System Orientation:
• Can stand vertically or horizontally.

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