Microsoft is today confirming some new details on the next-gen Xbox console. The company is sharing some new official specs of the Xbox Series X today, with more details expected at E3.
“Compared to the previous generation, Xbox Series X represents a superior balance of power and speed in console design, advancing on all technological fronts to delivering amazing, dynamic, living worlds and minimize any aspects that can take you out of the experience,” said Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft.
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Xbox Series X will be powered by Microsoft’s custom-designed processor based on AMD’s Zen 2 and RDNA 2 architectures. The company confirmed that the Xbox Series X will offer 12 teraflops of graphics performance, which is twice as more as the Xbox One X, and 8x more than the original Xbox One. In terms of processing power, the new custom-designed processor from Microsoft offers 4x more power than the original Xbox One.
Microsoft also talked slightly about the company’s proprietary and patented Variable Rate Shading system. “Our patented form of VRS empowers developers to more efficiently utilize the full power of the Xbox Series X. Rather than spending GPU cycles uniformly to every single pixel on the screen, they can prioritize individual effects on specific game characters or important environmental objects,” said Spencer.
The new VRS system will allow for more stable frame rates and higher resolution graphics without affecting the image quality. Microsoft also talked about other new features including the next-generation SSD inside the new Xbox, 120 fps support, and Quick Resume.
Xbox One Series X will also support “four generations of gaming”. That essentially means that the Xbox Series X will continue to work with existing Xbox One games, backwards-compatible Xbox 360, and original Xbox games. Microsoft says these games will look better than ever before on the Xbox Series X. Micorosft is also working on features like Smart Delivery to ensure greater compatability for games across all the generations of Xbox going forward.
proesterchen
<p>I'm guessing this will be another one of these fun pre-order and flip for a nice bonus things come launch, unless, of course, we're all done in by that virus by then.</p><p><br></p><p>I, personally, can't wait! </p>
Stooks
<p>Price. Honestly that is what matters. This thing has to be $599 or less or it will flop big time. </p>
proesterchen
<blockquote><em><a href="#522773">In reply to Stooks:</a></em></blockquote><p>If Sony goes $399 like with the PS4, Microsoft may kneecap themselves again in terms of install base by going with $499. Not sure how far their 'more power!' marketing can take them, especially with the console gift giving crowd.</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#522796">In reply to RM:</a></em></blockquote><p>Sony has regularly taken a loss on hardware initially. Sony is selling way more hardware and software, I think they will try to be the lower cost option with 90% of the power.</p><p><br></p><p>Honestly with Microsoft publishing everything on Xbox and PC now, unless all of your friends are on Xbox only I am not sure what the lure is anymore for the Xbox. Even if your friends are only Xbox, I bet by the time this thing drops, way more games are going to be cross compatible. I play COD right now with Xbox friends while I am on the PC. We play the co-op missions and it all works great.</p><p><br></p><p>The safe play would be PC/Play station and then you can play anything for the most part.</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#522795">In reply to glenn8878:</a></em></blockquote><p>Honestly "teraflops" does not mean much IMHO. </p><p><br></p><p>The Xbox One X, thanks to Digital Foundry in depth testing, was the equivalent as a AMD RX 580 in real world gaming performance. Microsoft is claiming their custom NAVI2 part will be twice as fast as a RX 580. </p><p><br></p><p>If you go to YouTube and search on RX580 vs 5700XT you will get multiple videos showing gaming bench marks that show the 5700XT is basically twice as fast as the RX580, almost exactly in most benchmarks. So I would peg the performance at 5700XT, in terms of real world gaming performance, which is in the PC world twice as fast at the RX580/Xbox One X.</p><p><br></p><p>This console wont be out until October? Maybe later? By then a 5700XT will be mid tier PC performance….if that. Right now a RTX2070 Super is the same or slightly better than a 5700XT. By October a new GTX/RTX 3060 will be out and besting the 2070/5700XT and cost you maybe $299, probably less.</p>