#Box360 - Twitter Hashtag

19 days ago

#SiliconHistory post One of the most overlooked pieces of silicon in the 7th generation was the #Xbox360 Xenon CPU’s VMX128 SIMD unit. While the #PS3 Cell excelled at high throughput data parallel workloads through its #SPEs, the #box360 #Xenon was not merely a generic #PowerPC CPU. Its VMX128 #SIMD extension was a game-focused enhancement of PowerPC VMX/AltiVec, adding a larger vector register file and specialized instructions that mapped unusually well to common game-engine math workloads, especially vector dot products, transforms, animation, physics, culling, and other linear-algebra-heavy code. Arguably, Xenon’s strongest capability was performing a Vector3 dot product per cycle together while avoiding the extra w component of a Vector4. That is something very few modern CPUs can do as directly for this specific operation. This instruction set gave the #Xbox 360’s Xenon a major advantage. In dot-heavy arithmetic workloads, it would realistically outperform top-of-the-line 2005 #PC CPUs like #Intel Pentium EE 840 and #AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ by roughly 2.7× to 6.7× in raw arithmetic capability. Those high-end PC chips had no equivalent #SSE dot-product instruction. Their SIMD paths had to construct the same result through a sequence of vector multiplies, shuffles, horizontal additions, and broadcasts. That mattered because dot products are everywhere in game engines: transforms, 3D rendering, skeletal animation, #physics constraints, collision detection, frustum culling, lighting calculations, projections, pathfinding, and plane tests. However, Xenon, as an in-order CPU, was not as strong in branch heavy code, pointer-heavy code, or code that was not cache friendly by nature. For the mathematics at the heart of a 2005 game engine, VMX128 gave the Xbox 360 capabilities that desktop CPUs would not match as directly until later SIMD extensions arrived and general transistor counts increased. https://t.co/tuOFxt2dNN #Xbox #Xbox360 #Xenon #VMX128 #SIMD #GameDev #GameEngine #GraphicsProgramming #Cpp #CPU #Intel #AMD #RetroHardware #math #screenshotsaturday

theredpix's tweet photo. #SiliconHistory post

One of the most overlooked pieces of silicon in the 7th generation was the #Xbox360 Xenon CPU’s VMX128 SIMD unit.

While the #PS3 Cell excelled at high throughput data parallel workloads through its #SPEs, the #box360 #Xenon was not merely a generic #PowerPC CPU. Its VMX128 #SIMD extension was a game-focused enhancement of PowerPC VMX/AltiVec, adding a larger vector register file and specialized instructions that mapped unusually well to common game-engine math workloads, especially vector dot products, transforms, animation, physics, culling, and other linear-algebra-heavy code.

Arguably, Xenon’s strongest capability was performing a Vector3 dot product per cycle together while avoiding the extra w component of a Vector4. That is something very few modern CPUs can do as directly for this specific operation.

This instruction set gave the #Xbox 360’s Xenon a major advantage. In dot-heavy arithmetic workloads, it would realistically outperform top-of-the-line 2005 #PC CPUs like #Intel Pentium EE 840 and #AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ by roughly 2.7× to 6.7× in raw arithmetic capability.

Those high-end PC chips had no equivalent #SSE dot-product instruction. Their SIMD paths had to construct the same result through a sequence of vector multiplies, shuffles, horizontal additions, and broadcasts.

That mattered because dot products are everywhere in game engines: transforms, 3D rendering, skeletal animation, #physics constraints, collision detection, frustum culling, lighting calculations, projections, pathfinding, and plane tests.

However, Xenon, as an in-order CPU, was not as strong in branch heavy code, pointer-heavy code, or code that was not cache friendly by nature.

For the mathematics at the heart of a 2005 game engine, VMX128 gave the Xbox 360 capabilities that desktop CPUs would not match as directly until later SIMD extensions arrived and general transistor counts increased.

https://t.co/tuOFxt2dNN

#Xbox #Xbox360 #Xenon #VMX128 #SIMD #GameDev #GameEngine #GraphicsProgramming #Cpp #CPU #Intel #AMD #RetroHardware #math #screenshotsaturday

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Guwahati City FC- GCFC @guwahaticityfc

about 2 years ago

Sweating it out #OneAssamOneDream #AFCC #IndianFootball #SportscraftManagement #Fesh #Box360 #AssamFootballAssociation

guwahaticityfc's tweet photo. Sweating it out

#OneAssamOneDream #AFCC #IndianFootball #SportscraftManagement #Fesh #Box360 #AssamFootballAssociation https://t.co/0uqrzCpFSi

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Guwahati City FC- GCFC @guwahaticityfc

about 2 years ago

Fixtures are out! Here is the #GuwahatiCityFC fixtures in the Group C of the AIFF Futsal Club Championship 2023-24 at Vadodara, Gujarat. Send us best of your wishes!⚽🏆 #OneAssamOneDream #AFCC #IndianFootball #SportscraftManagement #Fesh #Box360 #AssamFootballAssociation

guwahaticityfc's tweet photo. Fixtures are out!

Here is the #GuwahatiCityFC fixtures in the Group C of the AIFF Futsal Club Championship 2023-24 at Vadodara, Gujarat.

Send us best of your wishes!⚽🏆

#OneAssamOneDream #AFCC #IndianFootball #SportscraftManagement #Fesh #Box360 #AssamFootballAssociation https://t.co/DMH7vckdeT

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AXIE (⁉️) from music — (eventually..) @premblo

almost 5 years ago

Saw Xbox 360 trending... I thought something had happened to it, very relieved to figure out that it's healthy and doing well #Box360

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Archana Thakur @ArchanaThakur7

about 6 years ago

A chemical-free, certified, medical-grade steel, leak-proof, UV-disinfectant box that is "Made In India".BOX 360 is a portable UV-C Chamber which is an eco-friendly & cost-effective tool that uses ultraviolet C (UV-C) light. #covid19 #UVC #MakeinIndia #certified #safwey #box360

ArchanaThakur7's tweet photo. A chemical-free, certified, medical-grade steel, leak-proof, UV-disinfectant box that is "Made In India".BOX 360 is a portable UV-C Chamber which is an eco-friendly & cost-effective tool that uses ultraviolet C (UV-C) light. #covid19 #UVC #MakeinIndia #certified #safwey #box360 https://t.co/tiYhdIrgvd

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🕹 RetroGuyBry 🕹 @retroguybry

about 6 years ago

Wet on #box360 starring Rubi Malone. An action game that combines shooting, swordplay, acrobatics and gore. Music and slow motion fight scenes help create a cinematic “Kill Bill” style experience. #xboxsunday #sundayonxbox #shareyourgames