XBox 360 Video game console produced by Microsoft, with the cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SIS. XBox 360 was a flexible gaming console in which it offers XBox Live service, which allowing the gamers to compete on-line, gamers can download games and contents such as games demos, trailers, Tv Shows, music videos and movies.
Xbox 360 was began its promotional campaign on March 14,2005 and it was finally released on November 22, 2005 in the United States and later it launched in 36 different countries. XBox 360 was then configured in three variants with different price range. Its known as the XBox 360 Core, XBox 360, and XBox 360 Elite. At launch the XBox 360 mainstream package was price at $399 USD, the XBox 360 Core was priced at $299 USD.
The XBox 360 takes a new approach compared to its predecessors. The CPU emphasize high floating point performance through FPU (Floating Point Unit) and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) unit in its core. The XBox 360 uses a chip designed by ATI called Xenos. It was developed under the name C1 and R500.
The console features 512 MB of GDDR3 clocked at 700 megahertz with an ert(effective transmission rate) of 1.4 Ghz on a 128 bit bus. The memory is shared by the CPU and the GPU via unified memory architecture. The memory interface bus has a bandwidth of 22.40 GB/s.
The XBox 360 physical outline is 309 mm wide x 83 mm high x 258mm deep. It was a designed by Astro Studios in cooperation with Hers Experimental Design Laboratory.
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