What GPU does the Xbox use?
The 233 MHz Xbox Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) was initially announced as 300MHz and is developed by Nvidia, the company behind the popular GeForce video cards for the PC. The Xbox GPU is based upon Nvidia”s recently released GeForce 3 technology and is classified as the NV2A by Xbox Officials. It is the most powerful graphics chip in any console to date. Also referred to as the “X-Chip”, the Xbox”s graphics processor is capable of a multitude of onboard special effects including full-scene antialiasing, four simultaneous textures per object, fog, environment mapping, pixel and texel shaders, bump mapping, and real-time lighting. The X-Chip can display four textures per object has an onboard texture compression at a 6:1 ratio. The Xbox”s unified DRAM should also aid in texture clarity since developers have the freedom to allocate it however they wish. The X-Chip can display graphics at a maximum resolution of 1920×1080. Microsoft has stated that it the Xbox is capable of displaying
