After making the technical specifications of the new Microsoft home console known, hardware experts estimate how far it can go.
Microsoft has already unveiled the main technological assets of its next home console, Xbox Series X, which will open the next generation with hardware whose technical specifications allow to conclude that, on paper, it will be a machine ready to last many years without worrying about lack of power. As WCCFTech collects, a hardware specialist has calculated what that hardware currently means.
The first thing to make clear is that exact comparisons between Xbox Series X and a high-end computer cannot be made because there is no identical equivalence; After all, the new commitment of the firm led by Phil Spencer is not a computer, it is a console, with the changes that entails. In addition, there are data that remain unknown, such as RAM capacity.
Xbox Series X, console CPU | Phil Spencer
Not surprisingly, John Prendergast has taken as a basis those 12 Teraflops with 8 cores at a speed of 2.3 GHz and has subjected them to different tests to conclude that it can be equivalent to the line of processors Ryzen 5 of the company AMD; specifically, a 1600 or 1600 AF, sticking to gross power. The document delves into more details, although it does not speculate what it may amount to beyond this processor.
Another story is the GPU, whose equivalence is much more complicated to estimate. Although the possibility of exceeding the capacity level of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super has sounded, the truth is that there is no certainty that this could be so (neither in the case of being superior nor in the case of being inferior ). We know that a Radeon VII has a power of just over 11 TFLOPs, while an RTX 2080 Ti does the same with a stock speed of 11.7 TFLOPs. They place, however, the Xbox Series X GPU at an intermediate step between the current mid-range and the current high-end computers. The price will depend on all this; The capacity of the SSD storage memory and the volume of the RAM memory will also influence.
Xbox Series X | Microsoft
To learn more about Xbox X Series, we recommend consulting this report, where we deal with all the information, confirmed details, industry opinions and other more specific aspects of the console. Also, here we list all the confirmed games of the system, whose output is expected for Christmas 2020 with Halo: Infinite from day one.
Source | John Prendergast (via WCCFTech)
