Tech site: Next-gen Xbox to have Hi-Fi 'natural user interface'

January 24, 2013 9:20am


The next-generation version of Microsoft's Xbox gaming console will have a high-fidelity "natural user interface" sensor and a powerful graphics processing unit that can run 1.2 trillion operations per second, a video game site said.

Video game site VGLeaks.com cited a new leak containing the specifications of the new Xbox console, codenamed "Project Durango."

"At peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second," it said.


It said the machine also boasts of a 64-bit central processing unit, with eight CPU cores running at 1.6 GHz.

Microsoft's machine also has a 8-GB RAM and 32-MB of fast embedded SRAM, and a 50GB 6x Blu-ray disc drive.

The machine can go online using Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct.

Its hardware accelerators include Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware and cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing.

A separate article on T3.com said the Kinect MEC hardware "suggests the console will work with the next iteration of Kinect motion control." — LBG, GMA News