Microsoft has announced all the features of the Xbox Series X, the new next-gen console: here’s how it’s made
Microsoft has finally announced the official features of its next next-gen console: the Xbox Series X. This is a gaming console with the best hardware available today and promises performance, at a glance, double that of the current Xbox One X.
As is already known for some time, inside the Xbox Series X beats a heart 100% made in AMD: the main processor has a Zen 2 architecture, and is made with a 7 nm manufacturing process, while the GPU has RDNA 2 architecture. The rest of the hardware is absolutely up to the CPU-GPU pair, in every area: from RAM memory to the huge storage space (further expandable), up to the optical drive. In Microsoft’s Xbox Series X console, everything has been designed and implemented to achieve just one goal: smooth gaming, between 60 and 120 fps, even at the maximum resolution of 4K. Will the promise be kept?
Xbox Series X: technical sheet
The CPU of the Xbox Series X console is an AMD eight-core Zen 2, customized to give the maximum in gaming, with a maximum frequency of 3.8 GHz that go down to 3.6 GHz in case of symmetrical processing on all cores. The GPU is also customised, starting with the RDNA 2 architecture with 52 CUs (compute units) running at 1.825 GHz and offering a theoretical maximum power rating of 12 TFLOPS.
The RAM is also impressive: 16 GB using GDDR6 technology, with a 320mb bus. Of this 16GB, the first 10GB have a bandwidth of 560GB/s, the remaining 6GB have a bandwidth of 336GB/s. Storage consists of a 1TB NVMe-enabled SSD, with I/O speeds of up to 2.4GB7s (increasing to 4.8GB/s with compression). The storage space can double with an available internal expansion slot and can be further increased with an external hard drive connected via USB 3.2. The optical drive is a Blu-Ray UHD 4K, because 4K is the gaming resolution of choice for this 2020 console from Microsoft.
Xbox Series X: when it comes out and how much it costs
The final public price of the Xbox Series X is not yet known but, after reading the data sheet, it is clear that it will not be low at all: the hardware is all there and you will have to pay for it. As for the release date, however, the official news is always the same: Christmas vacations 2020. We will have to see, however, if the global emergency Coronavirus will also impact on the production of this console. Possible slips in the presentation have not been announced, but are also not to be excluded.