Microsoft Xbox Reveal Event - May 21, 2013

[Gubbi]

5B transistors is good for a full Tahiti (32 CUs, 384-bit memory controller, dedicated video hardware, etc.) plus 8 jaguar cores (assuming some 40M transistors each?) and still have some 500M transistors left.

Also a prohibitively large and hot die.

A fair amount of transistors are sunk into the SRAM arrays, 2 x 4MB CPU caches and the 32MB ESRAM is going to be 2B transistors alone, add 2B for a 7790-ish GPU, and you have 1B left over for the CPUs, the audio DSP block, the Kinect DSP, clock network and repeaters.

Sounds about right.

Cheers

 

[Lefungus]

Blah blah, tv, blah blah...
Xbox one is dead in europe concerning TV.

 

[jonabbey]

They seem to be doubling down on the XBro demographic.

 

[Cjail]

If the Xbox had 2 Teraflops they would've said it.
All we got is 8GB

 

[Wynix]

Wow, xbox dropping big bucks for Speilberg.

Sci-fi military conflicts by Speilberg? sounds pretty sick.

Edit: LOL i forgot i was watching a game console reveal.

 

[Devious]

I'm going to assume the games portion of the conference is over. Come on MS... Don't do this.

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Halo Television Series.......?

REALLY?

Was a pretty obvious step after the success of the web miniseries and the Spartan Ops stuff. They've had a LOT of youtube views.

It can also build up the eventual movie.

 

[Rangers]

Wired says 8x Xbox GPU -> 1.92 TFLOPs?

worth linking

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one/

Quantifying graphical performance is notoriously squishy. That being said, Microsoft touts the Xbox One as delivering 8 times the graphic performance of the 360. If you were to go by raw transistor count, that performance jump would be closer to tenfold: the Xbox One boasts 5 billion to the 360’s 500 million. More concretely, those paltry 512 MB of memory have been boosted to 8 GB.

plenty of wiggle room. also speaking of the whole system.

 

[Billy Idol]

Fuck!! Who cares for nfl in europe...for gods sake I am going to get mad...not what I expected to be honest.

Still hope to get some games in this show...

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

this is simply terrible. Really disappointed.

Actually had a little hope too....

 

[Strange]

I insist everybody from now on call it the XDVR One.

 

[Rangers]

I'm going to assume the games portion of the conference is over. Come on MS... Don't do this.

ghosts has yet to be shown, maybe respawn shooter?

 

[Bagel seed]

From Wired

Quantifying graphical performance is notoriously squishy. That being said, Microsoft touts the Xbox One as delivering 8 times the graphic performance of the 360. If you were to go by raw transistor count, that performance jump would be closer to tenfold: the Xbox One boasts 5 billion to the 360’s 500 million. More concretely, those paltry 512 MB of memory have been boosted to 8 GB.

 

[Tap In]

I'm going to assume the games portion of the conference is over. Come on MS... Don't do this.

closing with CoD no doubt, they made it clear this was about the new console and how it changes the living room... Games are for E3

 

[L. Scofield]

This is worse than the Kinect segments of past conferences...

 

[Cjail]

Where are the games?
14 exclusives and only 1 showed.

 

[Rangers]

If the Xbox had 2 Teraflops they would've said it.
All we got is 8GB

my guess is, that many trans on the esram it really helps the (1.2tf?) gpu be turbocharged.

the games certainly looked good enough to support that theory.

 

[jonabbey]

That Wired article makes it sound like the 8GB DRAM is on die?

 

[Nesh]

I must say the Halo series is a powerful business move. TV series have evolved exceptionally to the point that they are better than movies and have a more powerful effect. It gets everyone talking about the series. Its like a viral effect. A Halo TV series that is as good as the best out will pull more people towards Halo games and the XBOXone. Its great marketing and a great way to encourage people to try the media integrations showcased in the beginning.
The TV series could add more uses and seamless integrations with additional features integrated with Halo gaming and search

 

[Wynix]

2013 worldwide launch.