Xbox Head Posts “Project Scarlett” (Xbox Series X) SoC

Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division at Microsoft, posted an image of the semi-custom SoC on the coronary heart of the corporate’s upcoming “Project Scarlett” Xbox Series X recreation console as his Twitter avatar. The image reveals a chip that appears visibly just like that of “Project Scorpio” (Xbox One X). The image was additionally taken from an angle that reveals the pinkish/auburn tinge of seven nm AMD chips made at TSMC. You’ll discover the identical tinge on chips reminiscent of “Navi 10” when considered from an angle. The die unabashedly bears the “Project Scarlett” and “8K” markings.

Next-generation recreation consoles are advertising and marketing 4K 60 Hz and 8K gaming functionality. They possible use a mixture of dynamic resolution-scale and variable fee shading to realize this. The “Project Scarlett” SoC is a semi-custom chip co-designed by Microsoft and AMD, and makes use of CPU cores primarily based on the corporate’s “Zen 2” microarchitecture, mixed with a robust GPU primarily based on RDNA2, which options hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and variable-rate shading. Hardware fans on Twitter are abuzz with estimating the die-size of the SoC, with calculations pinning it across the 350 mm² mark ±10 mm², or roughly just like that of “Project Scorpio,” however one should issue within the swap to 7 nm from 16 nm considerably growing transistor-density.