New Xbox might have 8-core CPU, 8GB ram and Windows 8 kernel

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/11/2013 01:42 PM | source: | 31 comment(s)

On a Chinese forum an ex-Ubisoft employee reports that the new Xbox might have an 8-core AMD CPU, 8GB ram and Windows 8 kernel. This is on par with earlier rumors excapt for a thing or two. Obviously the Xbox would get a Radeon HD 8000 based graphics solution and a 640GB HDD. The AMD processor however sounds supiciously similar to the latest generation APU with Piledriver cores.

8 Core versions of the APU (currently) however do not exsists, hinting towards FX processors. FX could be an option, though we doubt that very much. An A10 APU like product would be the more sane path to follow. A member of the Chinese forum TGFC, also known as BD claims to know the specifications of the console as he was a Ubisoft employee. Opposed to previous rumors what jumps out is the amount of memory, previously that was rumored to be 4GB. Microsoft plans to make a symbiosis with Windows 8. The new Xbox however still has not officially been announced.

We expect that during E3 2013 that might be the case though. Sony as well would release a new console aka Playstation 4 later this year

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TheDeeGee
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#4498241 Posted on: 01/11/2013 03:14 PM

Even if it had 100 cores, if the GPU is weak it still sucks.

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#4498243 Posted on: 01/11/2013 03:18 PM

I can see the W8 kernel but 8 cores I doubt it won't need that with as weak as the GPU will be.

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#4498245 Posted on: 01/11/2013 03:23 PM

cant wait to see it in action. looking really forward to it. hopefully with Halo5

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#4498252 Posted on: 01/11/2013 03:33 PM

Where does it say the GPU will be weak?

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#4498253 Posted on: 01/11/2013 03:34 PM

Before everyone starts freaking out about the CPU not existing yet, its because its not supposed to exist yet. Microsoft probably has the APU heavily modified so you can't run another OS on it. Also it being 8 cores might be overkill but we don't know what kind of cores they are. AMD is looking into ARM, so there could be 4 ARM cores and 4 x86 for all we know. That might be overkill for gaming now but that's because the current Xbox doesn't need that much.

As for anyone who has been hating or disappointed in AMD lately, if the arch they make for MS is anything similar to piledriver, we may be seeing games perform better on the AMD products rather than intel. Some benchmarks showed AMDs stuff being faster, but the problem is no programs are optimized for their ideas.

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