Xbox Series X: Full console specs provided by Microsoft

After several speculations, rumors and leaks the Microsoft gives more details about the next console he is preparing, the Xbox Series X

Αso it seems, we are dealing with an octa-core AMD Zen2 processor equal to Ryzen 7 3700X.

After several speculations, rumors and leaks the Microsoft gives more details about the next console he is preparing, the Xbox Series X, saying it will be the fastest market and based on three key pillars: strength, speed and compatibility - possibly referring to title support from older generations.

'The fastest Xbox ever builtIt will integrate enough hardware so that it can support high framerate without at the same time hurting other areas such as quality and using smart techniques.

The goal of the creators is the resolution of 4K at 60FPS and this will be achieved with the new hardware technology hidden inside with their basic 8 Zen 2 cores running on 3.8GHz while by activating it SMT in the future we will see the reduction of timings to 3.66GHz. According to information from Digital Foundry, which published an extensive video with the new design of Microsoft, the company urges developers to write their games for the highest available processor frequency (3.8GHz) before moving to the second scenario sometime in the future.

The console base board appeared just a few minutes ago on the official Microsoft blog and with it we have the full specs from the Redmond giant. The chip will have an area of ​​360.45 mm2 while it will be manufactured at 7nm by TSMC, like all the latest AMD hardware. Along with fast cores, AMD also supplies Microsoft with future GPUs, the RDNA2 in a custom implementation with 3328 cores (52 CUs) active from the 3584 that has the full AMD chip (56 CUs), according to Digital Foundry.

GPU performance is at 12.2TFLOPs and Xbox engineers aim to run games on 4K resolution and 60 FPS. In the other features of the card we will see hardware acclerated ray tracing which as we mentioned earlier will be present in the desktop RDNA 2 GPUs of AMD as soon as they are released towards the end of 2020, but with a small reservation due to the latest developments with the spread of the corona .

The connectivity will be modern and so on the back there will be a slot for extra storage that will be connected via PCIe Gen 4 to System on Chip with Seagate as the first partner that is already preparing capacity drives 1TB. The SSD inside will also have a size of 1TB, despite the fact that it will be of the type NVMe (Gen4), with the ever-increasing size of games will suffice for just a few titles so most are likely to buy extra space.

Microsoft also plays smart with the next-generation dual-memory system consisting of 16GB of GDDR6 memory but with different density chips that will vary the bandwidth to 560GB / s for the first 10GB and 336GB / s for the remaining 6GB, so we understand that part of the memory will be separated and used for a different purpose.

These seem to be the final specs of the Xbox Series X.

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