Apr 25, 2024 | Updated: 11:35 AM EDT
Apr 07, 2017 11:13 AM EDT
Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro struggles to hit 4K resolution with several games; Microsoft's next-gen Xbox is now ready to be an utter beast of a console. The company recently revealed the hardware specifications for its Xbox Project Scorpio console through Digital Foundry.
According to Eurogamer, Digital Foundry is one of the most demanding technical reviewers around. Significant upgrades abound in all areas while AMD managed to achieve borderline wondrous results Xbox Project Scorpio's new APU. Project Scorpio's graphics capabilities immediately spread out, the original Xbox One performs a mere 12 Radeon graphic cores clocked at a woefully slow 835MHz while Project Scorpio squeezes in 40 Radeon cores clocked at a whopping 1,172MHz. With this, AMD's Radeon RX 480 carries 37 cores that hum along between 1,120MHz and 1,266MHz; it seems like AMD and Microsoft crammed an entire $200 graphics card into Scorpio.
The upcoming Xbox Project Scorpio will bring native 4K gameplay to living rooms; with 4K textures require a crippling amount of RAM, Project Scorpio also received a substantial memory boost. The original Xbox One contained8GB of pokey DDR3 memory with 32MB of faster RAM, Project Scorpio will boost it up to 12GB of the speedy GDDR5 memory that can be soon found in modern PC graphics cards; with an overall bandwidth of 32GB per second.
According to The Verge, Xbox One Project Scorpio's technical reveal leaves curious PC fanatics somewhat wanting. Digital Foundry's reviews didn't clearly state whether the redesigned APU utilizes AMD's upcoming Vega graphics cores, AMD's Polaris graphic cores, or Polaris cores with a touch of Vega technology.
Meanwhile, Xbox Project Scorpio's customized PCU cores are not based on AMD's new Ryzen architecture; which they are still based on the old Jaguar design that directly affects PC gamers. AMD's new Ryzen processors lag behind Intel Core chips in gaming performance. If ever Microsoft's new console will feature Ryzen cores, then major developers would have been required to optimize for Ryzen.
