More Rumoured 'Durango' Next-Gen Xbox Specs And Ps4 specs

It's been less than a week since the last time supposed technical specifications for the next-generation of consoles hit the web, so it's high time for some more speculation surrounding the possible features and other technical bells and whistles you could find inside the box when Durango, Xbox 720 or whatever finally launches later in the year. That's assuming that the speculation thus far is all true, of course.

The latest rumoured specs have the next Xbox sporting a dedicated Kinect port, an integrated 'Natural User Interface', an eight-core 1.6GHz AMD CPU, a 50GB 6x Blu-ray disc drive, a 500GB HDD and a whole lot more besides, according to a document obtained by VGLeaks that alleges to have the full tech specs for the next-gen Xbox AKA Durango.

You can check out the full list of specs and a 'system block diagram' showing how all the technical gubbins apparently fit together below. Remember, this is all rumoured stuff however, and none of it's confirmed.

CPU:

x64 Architecture
8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz)
each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache
each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache
each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources
each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock
GPU:

custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor
12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads
each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle
at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second
High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present
Storage and Memory:

8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s)
32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
from the GPU's perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec.
Hard drive is always present
50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive
Networking:

Gigabit Ethernet
Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct
Hardware Accelerators:

Move engines
Image, video, and audio codecs
Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware
Cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing

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im nerdy enough to be interested but not enough to know the significance of most of that

This would be a nice leap

GPU still sucks though

yeah the gpu seems pretty underwhelming.

More rumored Ps4 specs

http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/21/kaz-hirai-hints-the-ps4-will-release-after-xbox-successor/

The latest rumoured specs have the next PlayStation boasting more raw computational power than its Microsoft rival's rumoured specs, with 18 Radeon GCN compute units at 800MHz (1.84 teraflops in total), a 100GB Blu-ray drive and a whole lot more besides. This matches the previous rumoured specs, suggesting that they could indeed be legitimate.

However, it looks like Sony might once again adopt the 'wait and see' approach, and let Microsoft go first with its next-generation Xbox, according to comments from Sony CEO, Kaz Hirai, who told The Times [via VG247], “why go first when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?”

Remember, this is all rumoured stuff however, and none of it's confirmed.