Microsoft revealed throughDigital Foundrythe tech specs of their upcoming Project Scorpio console, a powerful upgrade to the current Xbox One, similar to the PS4 Pro. They did not reveal a release date or price but said it was aimed at the “premium gamer”.
Project Scorpio Tech Specs
Here are the Scorpio’s specs:
The Scorpio is 30% faster and 4x more powerful than the Xbox One. All Xbox One games will be compatible with it without requiring patches, basically allowing the entire library to experience improvements in performance like load times and frame rates, even if you’re not running a 4K TV. New games will be able to take advantage of full 4K at 60 FPS (Forza 6 was the game demo’d at these specs).
Here’s a chart comparing the specs of the present lineup of current gen consoles for those that like the nitty gritty:
Project Scorpio
Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz
Eight custom Jaguar cores clocked at 1.75GHz
Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz
40 customised compute units at 1172MHz
12 GCN compute units at 853MHz (Xbox One S: 914MHz)
36 improved GCN compute units at 911MHz
12GB GDDR5
8GB DDR3/32MB ESRAM
Memory Bandwidth
DDR3: 68GB/s, ESRAM at max 204GB/s (Xbox One S: 219GB/s)
Hard Drive
1TB 2.5-inch
500GB/1TB/2TB 2.5-inch
Optical Drive
4K UHD Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Xbox One S: 4K UHD)
Thoughts on the new hardware? Enough to get you to upgrade or buy a new one when it does release?
