Complete Hardware Specs Sheet of Xbox Series X Revealed

Microsoft simply out of the whole {hardware} specs-sheet of its next-generation Xbox Series X leisure system. The checklist of {hardware} can go toe to toe with any trendy gaming desktop, and even at its manufacturing scale, we’re undecided if Microsoft can break-even at round $500, presumably relying on sport and DLC gross sales to get better a few of the prices and switch a revenue. To start with the semi-custom SoC on the coronary heart of the beast, Microsoft partnered with AMD to deploy its current-generation “Zen 2” x86-64 CPU cores. Microsoft confirmed that the SoC might be constructed on the 7 nm “enhanced” course of (very probably TSMC N7P). Its die-size is 360.45 mm².

The chip packs 8 “Zen 2” cores, with SMT enabling 16 logical processors, a humongous step up from the 8-core “Jaguar enhanced” CPU driving the Xbox One X. CPU clock speeds are considerably obscure. It factors to three.80 GHz nominal and three.66 GHz with SMT enabled. Perhaps the console can toggle SMT someway (presumably relying on whether or not a sport requests it). There’s no phrase on the CPU’s cache sizes.

The graphics processor is one other key part of the SoC given its lofty design purpose of having the ability to sport at 4K UHD with real-time ray-tracing. This GPU is predicated on AMD’s upcoming RDNA2 graphics structure, which is a step up from “Navi” (RDNA), in that includes real-time ray-tracing {hardware} optimized for DXR 1.1 and assist for variable-rate shading (VRS). The GPU options 52 compute items (3,328 stream processors supplied every CU has 64 stream processors in RDNA2). The GPU ticks at an engine clock pace of as much as 1825 MHz, and has a peak compute throughput of 12 TFLOPs (not counting CPU). The show engine helps resolutions of as much as 8K, regardless that the console’s personal efficiency targets at 4K at 60 frames per second, and as much as 120 fps. Variable refresh-rate is supported.

The reminiscence subsystem is analogous what we reported earlier right now – a 320-bit GDDR6 reminiscence interface holding 16 GB of reminiscence (combined chip densities). It’s changing into clear that Microsoft is not implementing an hUMA widespread reminiscence pool strategy. 10 GB of the 16 GB runs at 560 GB/s bandwidth, whereas 6 GB of it runs at 336 GB/s. Storage is one other are that is receiving huge {hardware} uplifts: the Xbox Series X contains a 1 TB NVMe SSD with 2400 MB/s peak sequential switch charge, and an possibility for a further 1 TB NVMe storage by means of an growth module. External storage gadgets are supported, too, over 10 Gbps USB 3.2 gen 2. The console is confirmed to function a Blu-ray drive that helps 4K UHD Blu-ray playback. All these {hardware} specs mix towards what Microsoft calls the “Xbox Velocity Architecture.” Microsoft can be working towards bettering the enter latency of its sport controllers.