Microsoft keeps on flaunting more details about its next-generation console, the Xbox Series X. Now they have revealed full technical specs of it, and then some.
Microsoft has dropped bits of information of what the Xbox Series X is capable of. Now we have it all in the form of a nice, neat technical sheet. Here it is:
- CPU: 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU
- GPU: 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU
- Die Size: 360.45 mm2
- Process: 7nm Enhanced
- Memory: 16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320mb bus
- Memory Bandwidth: 10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s
- Internal Storage: 1 TB Custom NVME SSD
- I/O Throughput: 2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block)
- Expandable Storage: 1 TB Expansion Card (matches internal storage exactly)
- External Storage: USB 3.2 External HDD Support
- Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive
- Performance Target: 4K @ 60 FPS, Up to 120 FPS
The missing pieces of the puzzle were the memory and storage size. And it’s looking like a hardware performance comparable to a current high-end PC. Though the custom storage solutions can be a big differential factor to PCs available already.
The Xbox Series X also has a storage expansion where you can basically insert a memory card to double the 1TB storage size already built-in.
Microsoft even revealed all the guts of the Xbox Series X. It has a huge heat sink, a split motherboard (with a heatsink chassis in the middle), and, of course, a vapour chamber for cooling.
All that Microsoft is communicating right now may not make someone jump in to buy an Xbox, but from the engineering side of things, they do know what matters the most. If the PS5 can match any of these, the next-generation of consoles will be exciting times.
Source: Xbox Wire