From PC World: Xbox One X. That’s the official name Microsoft’s given to Project Scorpio, the upcoming 4K-ready Xbox One successor, which took center stage at Microsoft’s E3 2017 press conference on Sunday. It’s arriving on November 7, 2017 for $500 and will, in Microsoft’s words, be “the most powerful console ever.” That was Microsoft’s main message for the show, repeatedly emphasizing its advantages over the competing PlayStation 4 Pro without ever mentioning its fellow console by name.
And it sure is a powerful console. The Xbox One X’s raw tech specs were already covered a few months back, and as my colleague Brad Chacos wrote at the time:
“Significant upgrades abound in all areas, and AMD’s managed to achieve borderline wondrous results with [the Xbox One X’s] new APU.
[The Xbox One X’s] graphics capabilities immediately leap out here. While the original Xbox One utilized a mere 12 Radeon graphics cores clocked at a woefully slow 853MHz, [the Xbox One X] squeezes in 40 Radeon cores clocked at a whopping 1,172MHz. To put that in proper perspective, AMD’s Radeon RX 480 contains 36 cores that hum along between 1,120MHz and 1,266MHz. It’s like AMD and Microsoft crammed an entire $200 graphics card into [the Xbox One X].”
The Xbox One X also receives a RAM boost, from 8GB of DDR3 up to 12GB of GDDR5, for a memory bandwidth of 326mbps—comparable to Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080. And like the GTX 1080, the Xbox One X features swanky vapor chamber cooling technology.
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