Microsoft today detailed the new Xbox Series S console. This new generation of $299 console will go on sale on November 10. This console uses the same Xbox Series X console. CPU, but the operating frequency is 3.6Hz, which is slightly slower than Series X’s 3.8GHz.
” The main difference between Xbox Series X and Series S is the GPU ,” explains Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s Xbox project management director.
“Xbox Series S provides four times the processing power of Xbox One consoles and supports up to 120fps experience,” said Liz Hamren, Xbox’s director of platform engineering and hardware. “The main difference between Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S is the resolution Through communication with users, we found that many fans value frame rate rather than resolution, so we hope to build a game console that does not require 4K TV.”
This makes Microsoft use a different GPU inside the Xbox Series S to lower the price. The company promised that the performance of the GPU is about three times that of the Xbox One . Although Microsoft did not elaborate on the specific specifications of the GPU, we learned that the Xbox Series S GPU has 20 CUs with a frequency of 1.550GHz. Through calculations, it can be calculated that the performance of about 4 teraflops, while the Xbox Series X is 12 teraflops ( 52 CU @ 1.825 GHz), there is a significant power gap.
Microsoft uses hardware extenders on Xbox Series S to expand 4K games on TVs, and even has comprehensive hardware support for AMD’s latest RDNA 2 feature set, including hardware-accelerated ray tracing, mesh shaders, and variable rate shading. Xbox Series S also has built-in 10GB of GDDR6 memory with a running speed of 224Gbps, while GDDR6 on Xbox Series X is 16GB.
Xbox Series S’s customized 512GB SSD also uses Microsoft’s Xbox Velocity architecture, which enables it to support functions such as fast recovery and can quickly switch between games.
Microsoft also uses the sampler feedback stream to allow Xbox Series S to load only the parts of the texture needed to render the scene, which should improve memory efficiency and I/O speed.
Naijatechnews understands that Microsoft has announced that it will release Xbox Series X and Series S products on November 10. The Xbox Series X will be priced at US$499, and the smaller S series will be priced at US$299.
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