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Microsoft Announces Xbox Series X: Available Holiday 2020
Microsoft this evening has finally given their long-awaited next generation gaming console a name, announcing the Xbox Series X. The device, formerly known as Project Scarlett, is said to be four times more powerful than the current Xbox One X, and along with its new Xbox Wireless Controller will be available in the Holiday 2020 timeframe.
[...] While Microsoft is still not offering a detailed breakdown of hardware specifications at this time, the company has reiterated their E3 announcement – that the box is powered by an AMD APU combining their Zen 2 processor cores and next generation RDNA architecture – while revealing the first performance estimate for the console: four times the processing power of the Xbox One X. It's not clear here whether Microsoft is talking about CPU performance, GPU performance, or both – but given that even AMD's fastest discrete GPUs today don't exceed 10 TFLOPS, it is likely a reference to the CPU side of matters and AMD's much faster Zen 2 CPU cores (and going by comments made to GameSpot, this seems to be exactly the case).
As well, the company is reiterating the technical features for the console: hardware raytracing, variable rate shading, Xbox One backwards compatibility, and a "next-generation" SSD. All of which will be used to offer games at 4K@60fps or better, with Microsoft indicating that 120fps will also be an option for developers (no doubt driven by the high refresh rates allowed by HDMI 2.1).
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(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Friday December 13 2019, @01:59PM (4 children)
Looks like some kind of modern art ashtray. Also the name .. Xbox Series X .. couldn't fit a few more X:s in there? Does the X make it sound cool or something?
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Friday December 13 2019, @03:25PM (1 child)
Microsoft must think so.
MSX, DirectX, ActiveX, XP, XACT, Xinput, Xaudio, MSXML, XboX. What neXt?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 13 2019, @03:29PM
seXbox HubXXX
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(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday December 13 2019, @04:59PM
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(Score: 1) by slashnot on Friday December 13 2019, @08:50PM
With two X's [wikipedia.org], they are clearly pandering to the feminist and girl-power movement.
(Before anyone gets upset, it was just a joke)
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday December 13 2019, @03:03PM (3 children)
Since AMD is offering a custom platform design based on their Ryzen/Navi architectures to public, probably at similar conditions as they did with Sony and Microsoft (and, shush, Nintendo), truly anyone can design and manufacture their own console. Not necessarily a gaming one, some secure industrial terminals could well be a good purpose.
https://www.amd.com/en/products/semi-custom-solutions [amd.com]
Alas, industry people are addicted to something else, preferably insecure and cannot concede.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 13 2019, @03:34PM (1 child)
Atari VCS [pcworld.com] is a Ryzen Embedded x86 PC.
Also the GPD Win Max [notebookcheck.net] is a "handheld gaming PC" with Ryzen Embedded.
Blast from the past:
Guerrilla dev: PS3's Cell CPU is by far stronger than new Intel CPUs [tweaktown.com] (archive [archive.ph])
huehhehehueheheh
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(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday December 13 2019, @03:57PM
GPD is cute, do want! I used to have a couple of Jornada 690/720 long time ago, until I gifted them to some local hackerspace.
Crafted a NetBSD to them, since Microsoft operating systems are the worst of everything, as always.
That GPD with a FreeBSD on it would be a great monster!
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday December 13 2019, @04:29PM
I would argue that today a console is more of a pre-defined hardware and software set. Yes, anyone can use an x86 PC to play video games, but the Xbox provides a uniform experience that is guaranteed to play the games sold. For custom hardware, sometimes accessories such as the Kinect are system specific. Maybe this new Xbox will have a Microsoft branded VR package.