Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Microsoft Unveils The Smallest Xbox Ever -- The Xbox One X (theverge.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the eight-letters,-three-of-them-'X' dept.

An anonymous reader quotes The Verge: After months of speculation, Microsoft is unveiling its "Project Scorpio" games console today, and it's officially named Xbox One X. Microsoft's Xbox One X naming comes just days after the company trademarked a mysterious S logo, and started dropping Scorpio hints in its E3 teaser videos. Microsoft is planning to launch the Xbox One X on November 7th worldwide. All existing Xbox One accessories will work on the new Xbox One X, alongside all existing Xbox 360 backwards compatible titles and Xbox One games. Microsoft is even planning to use "super sampling" on the One X to make new games look better even on 1080p TVs. [YouTube] The new console will ship with 6 teraflops of graphical power, more than its main competitor, the PS4 Pro, with 4.2 teraflops. Microsoft is using a custom GPU engine on Scorpio that runs at 1172MHz, a big increase over the Xbox One's 853MHz and even Sony's 911MHz found on the PS4 Pro.
Microsoft says the new Xbox One X is the "smallest Xbox ever."

3 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Hertz are irrelevant. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When it comes to GPUs, Hertz are irrelevant. Graphics are calculated in parallel using lots of computational pipelines. It's the number of pipelines * GPU speed that matters. You could have twice the speed per pipeline and only half the pipelines and then advertise it as twice as fast while maintaining the same computational throughput.

    Of course, this doesn't even get into the matter of there being multiple types of processing pipelines (integer and single/double/quad precision) and differing ratios of each of them in the GPU.

    --
    Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
  2. Re:Same same same by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Microsoft is also now starting to sell their XBox titles in the Windows 10 App Store to run on Windows 10 desktops. For about the same price as the Xbox versions. It lets them have something non-pathetic in the Windows 10 App Store and as you said, they are merging the XBox into being the same as a Windows 10 box.

  3. Re:You buried the lead, don't care about a small b by LostMyBeaver · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I won't waste money on another console if it isn't portable.

    Since we bought the Switch, our house barely wastes time on Xbox One. We just pack it up and go sit somewhere else. It has basically changed our entire game play dynamic.

    Switch looks as though it will eventually get a good game lineup too. We may miss the Xbox lineup, but Switch is just a better console all around. Its performance won't win any awards as it's not much faster than an Apple TV, but Nintendo has apparently invested very heavily in building the infrastructure we should expect to make a game console happen.

    So, if it's not portable, we're not interested.