Microsoft is making ready to launch a aggressive product to Google’s Stadia and Amazon’s Project Tempo, that are each recreation streaming companies. To Microsoft’s benefit, the corporate has expertise in constructing gaming programs and utilizing cloud expertise to combine them. While each Google and Amazon are cloud suppliers and have the infrastructure to implement recreation streaming companies, Microsoft has its Xbox division, which has been within the gaming trade for a very long time. Despite already proudly owning the infrastructure, Microsoft desires to make use of the {hardware} from its Xbox consoles as a base of the upcoming recreation streaming service referred to as Project xCloud.
According to sources of Tom Warren, senior editor at Verge, Microsoft shall be re-using the Xbox SoCs discovered of their consoles. According to the supply, at first, Microsoft goes to make use of Xbox One S blades to energy its recreation streaming service. After that, the corporate will improve its servers with extra highly effective Xbox Series X SoC. As a reminder, the Xbox Series X SoC has 8 Ryzen CPU cores primarily based on “Zen 2” µarch, RDNA 2 GPU able to delivering 12 TFLOPs, 16 GB of GDDR6 reminiscence and a mighty quick SSD. This shall be sufficient to fulfill recreation streaming service calls for and energy the entire AAA titles customers shall be enjoying as soon as it’s obtainable.
