How does the graphics card of the 360 compare to current computer standards?

Question by OKwithme: How does the graphics card of the 360 compare to current computer standards?
The 360 has some games coming out that look very graphics-intensive, yet my computer probably could barely handle some of the games. For example, wouldn’t a game like Street Fighter IV have trouble running on an ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card with 256MB of dedicated memory?

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Answer by David
The 360 Graphics processing is handled by the ATI Xenos, which has 10 MB of eDRAM. Its main memory pool is 512 MB in size.

At this point in time, much of the bandwidth generated by graphics hardware is required to handle color and z data moving to the framebuffer. ATI hopes to eliminate this as a bottleneck by moving this processing and the back framebuffer off the main memory bus. The bus to main memory is 512MB of 128-bit 700MHz GDDR3 (which results in just over 22GB/sec of bandwidth). This is less bandwidth than current desktop graphics cards have available, but by offloading work and bandwidth for color and z to the daughter die, ATI saves themselves a good deal of bandwidth. The 22GB/sec is left for textures and the rest of the system (the Xbox implements a single pool of unified memory).

The GPU essentially acts as the Northbridge for the system, and sits in the middle of everything. From the graphics hardware, there is 10.8GB/sec of bandwidth up and down to the CPU itself. The rest of the system is hooked in with 500MB/sec of bandwidth up and down. The high bandwidth to the CPU is quite useful as the GPU is able to directly read from the L2 cache. In the console world, the CPU and GPU are quite tightly linked and the Xbox 360 stands to continue that tradition.

Weighing in at 332M transistors, the Xbox 360 GPU is quite a powerful part, but its architecture differs from that of current desktop graphics hardware. For years, vertex and pixel shader hardware have been implemented separately, but ATI has sought to combine their functionality in a unified shader architecture.

There is a difference, but current desktop graphics cards will compare favorably to the xbox.

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How can i burn dvds through itunes without making it multi media?

Question by Antichrist: How can i burn dvds through itunes without making it multi media?
i tried and then i went to play it in my xbox 360 and it said multi media disk and wouldnt play i tried the dvd player to didnt work

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Answer by Jerico
Movie from iTunes store has DRM copyright protection, you can only play it on your computer or Apple portable player. If you want to burn it to DVD to play on TV or Xbox 360, you have to remove the DRM at first, and then convert and burn it to DVD. If you need detailed, I think this step by step guide would help you

http://www.freedvdripper.net/guides/burn-itunes-rentals-movie-to-dvd.html

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