Well you can't go to any hardware site on the web right now without reading about the next console from microsoft. I took a look at a couple of the reviews and the relatively sparse information about the graphics subsystem and a couple of details caught my eye. First was the 500Mhz clock speed, which I thought seemed a tad low, but the chip does have 10MB of embedded ram, so that could be holding them back. Second was the number of unified shader units: 48. Now this is completely conjecture, but 48 is a multiple of 24, not 32, so could this point to a 24 pipeline setup? Lastly was the overall fillrate, less than an x850xtpe and a 6800Ultra, which I found shocking. At 500Mhz even if the chip only had 16 pipelines, it should still be able to outpace a 6800Ultra.
Thoughts?