Last month Microsoft posted a lengthy article talking about what the upcoming Xbox Series X console can do. Today the company details the hardware inside the box that’s getting it done, including a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU running at 3.8 GHz and its powerful RDNA 2 GPU.
The technical jargon runs thick in Microsoft’s Xbox Series X technology post this morning, so much so that the company has created a helpful glossary to aid readers in navigating the various acronyms being thrown about. What you really need to know is that at this moment the hardware inside the Xbox Series X is the most impressive I’ve seen in a gaming console, easily rivaling today’s more powerful gaming PCs. Here’s the full spec list Microsoft laid out this morning.
Xbox Series X System Specs
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CPU: 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU
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GPU: 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU
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Die Size: 360.45 mm2
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Process: 7nm Enhanced
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Memory: 16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320mb bus
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Memory Bandwidth: 10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s
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Internal Storage: 1 TB Custom NVME SSD
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I/O Throughput: 2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block)
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Expandable Storage: 1 TB Expansion Card (matches internal storage exactly)
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External Storage: USB 3.2 External HDD Support
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Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive
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Performance Target: 4K @ 60 FPS, Up to 120 FPS
Between the CPU and GPU and the inclusion of a solid-state drive as primary storage, the Xbox Series X is ridiculously fast. Microsoft released a video comparing load times on the Xbox One X to the Xbox Series X and the difference is just ridiculous.
In another video posted today, Microsoft demonstrated the Xbox Series X’s much-discussed quick resume feature. Here’s how that works.
In case that’s not enough Xbox Series X information, the folks over at Digital Foundry have an excellent comparision of the Xbox One X and Xbox Series X, breaking down the differences in both console size and performance.
Gee this thing looks good on so many levels
Yep! The much more important questions are how much will it cost and when can I get my hands on it?
Sure does, still wanna know how ps5 compares but jeez this looks nice
Just a shame about the form factor.
A downvote for that comment? Really?
I can’t be the only person that doesn’t have room next to or under their television for this thing.
Did you have a gamecube? Lay 2 side by side, thats your footprint.
I wish sony would hurry up and give us some details. Their silence is starting to look like there’s some big problems going on behind the scenes.
Well of course loading times of an NVME drive are going to be substantially quicker than an old mechanical drive. Show me some 4k high detail at at-least 60fps and I’ll be suitably impressed.