Xbox 720 to Have 16-Core CPU?

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Microsoft has been pretty adamant that it won't be bringing the Xbox 720 to E3 2012 but the gossip and rumors about the console rage on regardless. Today's outlandish rumor comes courtesy of Xbox World, which is reporting that the new Xbox will have a 16-core CPU.


The report says that Durango developer kits were sent out last month and while they don't resemble the finished product as far as appearance is concerned, the guts of these kits is representative of the console that is expected next year. We had already heard that the new Xbox 720, codenamed Durango, would pack something along the lines of AMD's Radeon 7000-series in terms of graphics, and XBW is reporting the same, along with a 16-core IBM Power PC CPU.
"It's a ridiculous amount of power for a games machine - too much power, even," the reports states. "But remember, Kinect 2 could chew up four whole cores tracking multiple players right down to their fingertips, so it'll need a lot of power."


As usual, Microsoft hasn't commented on the rumors, preferring instead to stay quiet and let these reports stew away. Still, on the off chance they do comment, we'll be sure to keep you posted.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Xbo...oft,15285.html

[Cyberburnout]

Guess we will see. I wouldnt be surprised if it was something close to this. I saw reports long ago about the new xbox having 2 quad core cpus. This sounds more reasonable. Then again if the new cpu is based on IBM Power 7 or 7+ architecture the 16 core could have been misheard. Multi threaded makes more sense. 2 quad power 7 or 6 variants with multithreading can process 16 threads at a time. If not more.

[TheMadDutchDude]

I hear from latest rumours that it is going to have a custom PileDriver, eight core chip in there running at ~2GHz. I highly doubt you'd see 16 cores in a console. Sony tried with 8 on the PS3 and it causes no end of troubles for the developers.

[PoLoMoTo]

Yea the Xbox will have a 16 core chip just like the PS4 was going to have a 64 core chip. The two system will be nearly identical it will ultimately come down to exclusives and right now it doesn't look like Microsoft is doing too well, Bungie already left them...