Leak: "Xbox Surface" gets detailed

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Microsoft is not having a good start to the week. Not long after the previous leak that detailed the next generation Xbox, a new document has been posted that describes "Xbox Surface". The tablet will come in the 7in class size with 1280x720 resolution, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and a host of other features that you can see in the image above.

The timing is interesting as Microsoft has a "major announcement" planned for later today where they could possibly show off a new tablet designed and developed by Microsoft. If the above information is true, this could be our best look yet at Microsoft's tablet strategy, that is if this product is the one that makes it to retail. Depending on the age of this information, products go through many revision cycles before hitting store shelves, so don't be surprised if we see a variation of the product described above.

Microsoft's event will kick off later this evening where it has the tech community in a fluster over what it will actually be announcing. While speculation has been all over the board, Microsoft has done a bang up job getting people talking about the announcement as we all try to take educated guesses as to what will be shown off.

Xbox Surface

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EstablishedGamingPosted:

These specs are better than an xbox360



Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU


3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache





CPU Game Math Performance


9 billion dot product operations per second




Custom ATI Graphics Processor


500 MHz
10 MB embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture




Polygon Performance


500 million triangles per second




Pixel Fill Rate


16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA




Shader Performance


48 billion shader operations per second




Memory


512 MB GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz DDR
Unified memory architecture




Memory Bandwidth


22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus




Overall System Floating-Point Performance


1 TFLOP




Storage


Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory unit support starting at 64 MB




I/O


Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
3 USB 2.0 ports
2 memory unit slots




Optimized for Online


Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
Built in Ethernet Port
Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
Video Camera Ready





Digital Media Support


Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Windows Media Center Extender built in
Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers




HD Game Support


All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard definition and high definition video output supported




Audio


Multichannel surround sound output
Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels




System Orientation


Stands vertically or horizontally




Customizable Face Plates


Interchangeable to personalize the console

EstablishedGamingPosted:

Well Looks like Microsoft have gone portable like Sony.

LinearPosted:

Some of those stats are pretty hefty. 1.2GB DRR5 graphics. 5GB DDR3 RAM..IBM POWER7, wow.

QWOPPosted:

Wow! Great leak.
WIll this be an xbox-like tablet, or an actual xbox port?
This seems interesting...
I'd be willing to be the price is from 299 - 349
This sounds awesome - probably will be purchasing one!

Johnnyboiiii95Posted:

what is it exactly? i read its a tablet and can support 4 controllers?