The Microsoft console, which revealed its final technical specifications this week, will hit stores in Christmas 2020. Pure power.
Microsoft revealed on Monday the final technical specifications of Xbox Series X, which will be the most powerful console in the history of the company and with which they will start their new generation of machines. Its RAM memory, which will consist of 16 GB GDDR6, will have 13.5 of those GB dedicated exclusively to games.
Speed, performance and immediacy
From Digital Foundry, the English media has thoroughly analyzed what is inside this vertical tower designed by the architects of the firm led by Phil Spencer. Xbox Series X will use a 320-bit interface with a main board compressing the 14gbps GDDR5 modules, of which six are 2GB chips and the rest are 1GB chips. The location of that memory, as they reveal, will work asymmetrically; different from what would have been chosen in a PC architecture.
As Andrew Goossen, Microsoft member in charge of Xbox Series X, explains, “10 gigabytes of physical memory runs at 560 GB / s. This is what we call optimal memory GPU. The optimal and standard GPUs offer identical performance for the dedicated CPU for audio and IO file. The only hardware component where we find differences is in the GPU. "
And we come to memory. Its total capacity will be 16 GB, but now we know how that whole package, the brain, will be divided. A total of 13.5 GB will be dedicated to running video games; 10 GB of the GPU will be optimal memory, while the remaining 3.5 GB will be standard. The other 2.5 GB of RAM, which gives that total of 16 GB, will take care of moving other parameters more slowly in the background, such as the operating system. Ultimately, this division will make the games go faster and the reading speed is also faster with so much dedicated memory.
“Xbox Series X is the biggest generational leap in a SOC (System on Chip) and API design we've done at Microsoft so far; and it is truly an honor for AMD to have Microsoft's trust as a partner in this endeavor, ”said Sebastien Nussbaum, Vice President of Corporate and Product Technology at AMD.
Xbox Series X will launch worldwide in Christmas 2020 with at least Halo: Infinite out (included in Xbox Game Pass). You can check here everything we know about the console, the news of its new controller and all the games confirmed to date.
