The head of the console design explains the complex cooling system of the new machine compared to the current model.
Xbox Series X continues to discover many of its technical characteristics, both from its hardware-level numbers and from the machine's own internal design. And precisely in this sense, the maximum responsible for the design of the new Microsoft console, Chris Kujawski, has delved into the new Xbox Series X cooling system, ensuring that it will have up to 70% more internal air flow than the current one Xbox One architecture.
Great cooling, efficient and quiet
Thus, as Chris Kujawski assures the Eurogamer UK, the design of the Xbox Series X responds to a key objective: the cooling of the console. Thus, and thanks to its rectangular and cubic shape, an arrangement of its different internal elements has been achieved, favoring a greater amount of air flow in the most efficient and silent way possible. And is that according to its creators, 12 TFLOPS of power need a cooling system to match; So much so, that they ensure that the total flow of the new machine is up to 70% higher than that of Xbox One.
"With all that power you have to move a lot of air and you want to do it as quietly as possible. We studied many different ways to make air circulate inside a product and a single axial fan became the most efficient and silent solution for our system, ”says Jim Wahl, Microsoft's chief mechanical engineering officer.
"We have done a great job of customization, such as the number of blades or the geometry of the blades, which are fully optimized for our system," he concludes, ensuring that the internal flow of the new machine is up to 70% higher than Xbox One. To all this, Andrés Hernández, Microsoft's director of electrical engineering, explains the cooling work at the heatsink level, achieving 20% additional cooling, also thanks to the use of a steam chamber similar to that of the Xbox One X for Xbox Series X GDDR6 memory.
