Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360 - A Tour of the 360's Motherboard
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 18, 2005 12:19 AM EST- Posted in
- Systems
Up Close and Personal with the CPU, GPU and... Yonah?
The heart and soul of the Xbox 360 is of course its CPU and GPU, first off we have the 3 core PowerPC processor. In order to give you an idea of its size, we've compared it here to Intel's 65nm Yonah processor, with a die size of just 90 mm^2:
The 90nm Xenon processor looks to be a little less than 3 Yonahs, but remember that the move to 65nm will cut the Xenon basically in half, making it closer to 1.5 Yonahs if they were on the same manufacturing process. Through this comparison we can get a rough idea of the size of the logic in the Xenon CPU.
As another comparison point, here is Yonah vs. a AA battery, as well as the 3-core Xenon processor with a AA battery:
Now let's have a look at Yonah vs. the ATI Xenos GPU:
Finally we've got the Xbox 360 South Bridge, which is quite small:
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
27 Comments
View All Comments
Calin - Friday, November 18, 2005 - link
Power can be provided using two complete layers- one for ground, one for power. With the added benefit that, if they separate layers with data connections (those nice lines), they reduce interference between signals on different layers.Lifted - Friday, November 18, 2005 - link
Loading a little faster this time around. Ohh look, pictures!Gigahertz19 - Friday, November 18, 2005 - link
Haha 1st post..who carez about X-Box..I got my PCDonegrim - Friday, November 18, 2005 - link
A pc with a similar spec to the xbox would cost at least 3 times as much, probably more. And to play multiplayer games you would need another pc per person.DrZoidberg - Monday, November 21, 2005 - link
u dont need another pc for multiplayer, u just need to play online multiplayer games.Griswold - Friday, November 18, 2005 - link
3 times the price of an xbox360 isnt that much really. Especially when you think about the tenfold possibilites you have with a PC compared to a console. These arguments just dont cut it. If you can get the games you want to play on the PC you work with, no point in buying a console. If you prefer the console style games and dont really care too much about a PC besides browsing and e-mails, stick to the consoles.If you want the best of both worlds, get both.
I dont own a console because I realized, the games I like to play are simply sub standard as far as playability is concerned on consoles and/or dont exists (yet) and when they do, they play horrible due to other limitations.
Langley951 - Monday, July 23, 2018 - link
The Xbox 360 sold much better than its predecessor, and although not the best-selling console of the seventh generation, it is regarded as a success since it strengthened Microsoft as a major force in the console market at the expense of well-established rivals. https://mcdvoice.me/