Xbox One (Durango) Technical hardware investigation

[Brad Grenz]

Xbox One.

 

[Ekim]

edit: it's just a listing

 

[Cranky]

OK - Here is the last gasp rumor from crazy town for the XB1 before the bubbles burst at noon.

The linkedin sleuths at GAf found this profile http://cn.linkedin.com/in/vinberlei

It states that he tested the XB1 APU/dGPU for AMD. Note the punctuation in the profile. It definitely indicates that the XB has an APU/dGPU.

 

[Ekim]

OK - Here is the last gasp rumor from crazy town for the XB1 before the bubbles burst at noon.

The linkedin sleuths at GAf found this profile http://cn.linkedin.com/in/vinberlei

It states that he tested the XB1 APU/dGPU for AMD. Note the punctuation in the profile. It definitely indicates that the XB has an APU/dGPU.

That's what I posted above. Note the linebreak after APU/dGPU

 

[Deleted member 7537]

The 7970

Just kidding, of course.

 

[Betanumerical]

OK - Here is the last gasp rumor from crazy town for the XB1 before the bubbles burst at noon.

The linkedin sleuths at GAf found this profile http://cn.linkedin.com/in/vinberlei

It states that he tested the XB1 APU/dGPU for AMD. Note the punctuation in the profile. It definitely indicates that the XB has an APU/dGPU.

Well it technically is a DGPU (even though its part of the APU, and theres only one GPU in the system).

From wiki.

A dedicated GPU is not necessarily removable, nor does it necessarily interface with the motherboard in a standard fashion. The term "dedicated" refers to the fact that dedicated graphics cards have RAM that is dedicated to the card's use, not to the fact that most dedicated GPUs are removable. Dedicated GPUs for portable computers are most commonly interfaced through a non-standard and often proprietary slot due to size and weight constraints. Such ports may still be considered PCIe or AGP in terms of their logical host interface, even if they are not physically interchangeable with their counterparts.

Which would be the eSRAM.

 

[Rangers]

What is a dGPU?

 

[dragonelite]

What is a dGPU?

Dedicated gpu instead of an integrated gpu like you find in apu or intel laptop cpu.
Don't think its stands for dual gpu.

 

[Ekim]

Paging Reiko

 

[Rangers]

Oh, if you're expecting something powerful at hotchips, I'd aim for something semi-realistic like advanced Volcanic Islands tech, or how the ESRAM is gonna turbocharge the shaders, or even more shaders than we expected.

 

[Hardknock]

Xbox One presentation today http://www.hotchips.org/

 

[Rangers]

Xbox One presentation today http://www.hotchips.org/

I think I'm more excited for this than Gamescom.

Watch it be nothing...

Are they known to put the presentations online in a timely manner? If not, how will we know what was said?

 

[Ekim]

I think I'm more excited for this than Gamescom.

Watch it be nothing...

Are they known to put the presentations online in a timely manner? If not, how will we know what was said?

They usually upload all slides and videos to youtube. But it takes some time. If they talk final specs we might see MS releasing a spec sheet over at news.xbox.com - but I doubt we will get something concrete today except some leaks from a few attendees.

 

[Cranky]

That's what I posted above. Note the linebreak after APU/dGPU

LOL, that is a line wrap not a break. Linkedin profiles use wraps. Also note the rest of the punctuation.

Still silliness but fun to dream!

 

[BeyondTed]

Xbox One presentation today http://www.hotchips.org/

Has anyone found any Hot Chips news coverage yet?

Any sites covering the conference?

Conference

Mon 8/26 Session Title Presenter Affiliation
9:10 AM Welcome Introductory Remarks
9:30 AM SoC 1 AMD’s Kabini APU SoC Dan Bouvier, Ben Bates, Walter Fry and Sreekanth Godey AMD
XBOX One Silicon John Sell and Pat O’Connor Microsoft

 

[expletive]

Has anyone found any Hot Chips news coverage yet?

Any sites covering the conference?

I believe its on the west coast so this session won't begin for another 1:45 or so.

 

[GrimThorne]

Has anyone found any Hot Chips news coverage yet?

Any sites covering the conference?

There are a few sites that will be covering it. EDN Network and The Register are just a couple that will probably post the PDFs sooner than other sites.

 

[bbot]

Xbox One silicon presentation should begin in a few minutes.

 

[XpiderMX]

Supposing that Xbox has dGPU (I know it, it sound like misterxmedia) , may we know it at the Hotchips presentation?

 

[MarkoIt]

Updates from the conference:

https://twitter.com/rickbmerritt/status/372042121777541120


The die size is 363 mm^2. From the slide he posted, I can read a 204 Gb/s figure.