XBOX 360 is soon to be released (fall 2005). Here is a look inside:

System Performance

3 cores running at 3.2GHz each
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
1 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

500MHz
10MB 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

512MB GDDR3 RAM
700MHz DDR
unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwith

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

Storage

detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive 12X dual-layer DVD-ROM memory unit support starting 64MB

I/O

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

Optimized for Online

Xbox live features, including Xbox live marketplace for downloading content, and gamer profile for digital identity and voice chat
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/RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG photo CD
stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows PCs
rip music to Xbox 36- hard drive
custom playlists in every game
Windows Media Center Extender built in
Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers