Xbox Series X Tech Specs Released
It’s official! Today, Microsoft unveiled the official Xbox Series X tech specs, as well as a few articles to decipher the specs and technical capabilities of the next-gen console. Until now there was plenty of speculation and a few hints and teases about the relative power of the Series X and what it will be able to do. For those of us that love quantitative data, however, there was precious little information to go on – until now! Let’s take a look at the official specs that will be offered with the Day One Xbox Series X!
Without further ado, here are the official Xbox Series X tech specs:
| CPU | 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.6 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU |
| GPU | 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU |
| Die Size | 360.45 mm2 |
| Process | 7nm Enhanced |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320b bus |
| Memory Bandwidth | 10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s |
| Internal Storage | 1 TB Custom NVME SSD |
| I/O Throughput | 2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block) |
| Expandable Storage | 1 TB Expansion Card (matches internal storage exactly) |
| External Storage | USB 3.2 External HDD Support |
| Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive |
| Performance Target | 4K @ 60 FPS, Up to 120 FPS |
Personally, the 1TB SSD, expandable storage, 8-core CPU may be the most exciting specs up here. Load times on base level Xbox One’s are getting brutal with recent AAA titles, and a custom SSD will hopefully clear many of these problems up. There are also a few very insightful articles on Xbox Wire that go into great detail about their new console and everything it can do, and was designed for. These can be found here, here and here.
One of the main focus points from Microsoft seems to be latency reduction and, well, we can’t say that we blame them. Latency discrepancy between PC and consoles is a well-documented phenomenon that has plagued console games for years, often causing immense frustration in crossplay-enabled PvP games where players of the same skill but using a PC will experience a slight advantage over their console opponent.
This is due to the increased input lag from the controller to the console to the screen, whereas PC input from the keyboard/mouse to the computer and monitor is significantly lower. The Xbox Series X is set to combat this by improving the connections between all three components of this equation, illustrated in the image below.
That’s it for now – be sure to check back regularly for more next-gen console news updates, game reviews and much more!
What do you think about the Xbox Series X Tech Specs? Are they above or below your expectations? Let us know in the comments below!