Xbox Series X full specifications have been revealed today by Digital Foundry.
The next-gen console produces 12 teraflops of power and the 6 CPU cores are speedy at 3.6Ghz with hyper-threading enabled. When hyper-threading is off, the cores can operate at 3.8GHz.
~Andrew Goossen, Microsoft12 TFLOPs was our goal from the very beginning. We wanted a minimum doubling of performance over Xbox One X to support our 4K60 and 120 targets. And we wanted that doubling to apply uniformly to all games.
To achieve this, we set a target of 2x the raw TFLOPs of performance knowing that architectural improvements would make the typical effective performance much higher than 2x. We set our goal as a doubling of raw TFLOPs of performance before architectural improvements were even considered – for a few reasons. Principally, it defined an audacious target for power consumption and so defined our whole system architecture.
Below, you'll find the Xbox Series X full specifications, in comparison to Xbox One X and Xbox One S.
The next-gen Xbox Series X console will head to stores this coming holiday season.
Xbox Series X | Xbox One X | Xbox One S | |
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CPU | 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.8GHz (3.6GHz with SMT) | 8x Custom Jaguar Cores at 2.13GHz | 8x Custom Jaguar Cores at 1.75GHz |
GPU | 12 TFLOPs, 52 CUs at 1.825GHz, Custom RDNA 2 | 6 TFLOPs, 40 CUs at 1.172GHz, Custom GCN + Polaris Features | 1.4 TFLOPS, 12 CUs at 914MHz, Custom GCN GPU |
Die Size | 360.45mm2 | 366.94mm2 | 227.1mm2 |
Process | TSMC 7nm Enhanced | TSMC 16nmFF+ | TSMC 16nmFF |
Memory | 16GB GDDR6 | 12GB GDDR5 | 8GB DDR3, 32MB ESRAM |
Memory Bandwidth | 10GB at 560GB/s, 6GB at 336GB/s | 326GB/s | 68GB/s, ESRAM at 219GB/s |
Internal Storage | 1TB Custom NVMe SSD | 1TB HDD | 1TB HDD |
IO Throughput | 2.4GB/s (Raw), 4.8GB/s (Compressed) | 120MB/s | 120MB/s |
Expandable Storage | 1TB Expansion Card | – | – |
External Storage | USB 3.2 HDD Support | USB 3.2 HDD Support | USB 3.2 HDD Support |
Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive |
Performance Target | 4K at 60fps – up to 120fps | 4K at 30fps – up to 60fps | 1080p at 30fps up to 60fps |