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The next Xbox will ship to retailers in late October or early November of next year with six times the processing power of the Xbox 360, sources close to the project have told IGN. Following initial reports from tech blogs Fudzilla and SemiAccurate, our sources have confirmed that mass production of the system's GPU will indeed begin by the end of 2012 but will not, however, be based on AMD's 7000 series Southern Islands GPU. Instead, the processor will be derived from the 6000 series, which was introduced last year. More specifically, it will be akin to the Radeon HD 6670, which offers support for DirectX11, multidisplay output, 3D and 1080p HD output. The chip currently has a market price of upwards of $79.99.

In real terms, the Xbox 720's raw graphics processing power is expected to be six times that of the Xbox 360 and will yield 20-percent greater performance than Nintendo's forthcoming console, the Wii U.

Developers are likely to receive development kits based on the system's final configuration in August. Projected pricing for the console was not provided.

Thanks to IGN for the quick write up!

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Wow Tell Me what You Guys Think

PC >

Enough said.

lol, 6670 that's shit.

How much of an improvement is it to PS3?

Sweet. Hope it's backwards compatible.

Yeah, but you have to spend thousands to keep it up to date. It's good, but I'd like to not spend thousands every year to play a new game.

If PS4 is not FING AMAZING after how many years in development i swear i will buy it just so i can break it.

Think i'll wait for it to be out for a while before buying it so i no what its like and so all the first issues are fixed.

Already outdated 7970 is outlolol

Now its as good as a ps3 :carling:

Also the iPhone 4s was said to have twice the power and speed of the iphone4 but is it?? No. So the Xbox that is suppose to be 6x faster processor will probably just match the ps3 then ps4 will wipe the floor with Xbox.