Xbox Scorpio powered by 14 nm Polaris + Zen SoC for 4K gaming
That's a could be, Microsoft announced their high-end Xbox Scorpio console and meanwhile AMD confirmed it'll be powered by a semi-custom SoC--which will likely be based on Polaris and Zen.
Microsoft has confirmed that its new 4K-ready Xbox Scorpio rocks 6TFLOPS of power, reports Tweaktown, that would be 1.5x what the PS4K can do. As reported on Tweaktown:
Microsoft states the Xbox Scorpio will house the "most powerful console GPU ever," and there's a very good chance the console is powered by an SoC outfitted with AMD's new Zen CPU and Polaris GPU--especially since AMD just confirmed that the Scorpio is powered by asemi-custom SoC from AMD.
Apart from the obvious clues like 1080p 60FPS and 4K gaming and VR support, the Scorpio's confirmed specs also neatly match up with AMD's next-generation APUs. But given AMD's statements on the Scorpio's hardware, the console will use a SoC (and Microsoft has said the same). The Xbox Scorpio's custom SoC has an 8-core CPU, and AMD's Zen CPU sports 8-cores with 16 threads. Seems like a perfect match there. AMD is also suspected to release its next-generation APUs in 2017, fitting with the Scorpio's holiday 2017 launch, so there's a good chance the custom Zen/Polaris SoC would be ready.
"As we bring the high-performance CPU to life, we're also going to integrate Zen with our high-performance graphics in our next-generation APUs. So after Bristol Ridge, you will see integrated APUs with Zen and our GPU architectures. And you'll also see Zen across a number of embedded markets. The power of Zen's grounds-up design allows us to scale it across performance segments as well as low-power markets," AMD president and CEO Lisa Su said at the company's Computex 2016 event.
Zen and Polaris SoC combo could indeed power the Xbox Scorpio. "I have spoken to Senior AMD management was told that we won't see 14nm APUs until 2017, so a holiday 2017 for a Polaris and Zen-based APU seems reasonable and very doable," he said.
Xbox One Scorpio confirmed specs:
- 6 TFLOPs of performance
- 320GB per second memory bandwith
- 8CPU Cores
Even with AMD's high-performance Polaris/Zen SoC, the Scorpio might be the first console to leverage the power of desktop-grade video cards via external enclosures. This would give the Scorpio a tremendous push in horsepower, possibly enabling fluid framerates at native 4K and dramatically lowering latency in VR. AMD has teased such an enclosure in the past, and it's possible that Microsoft could make a highly-customized enclosure for, say, a Radeon RX 480 to slot into. In any case, it's a good bet that the new high-end Xbox One Scorpio console will pack a Polaris + Zen-powered SoC when it releases in holiday 2017.
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If only MS would let us use the xbox as a PC with such hardware. Now, that's potentially the only thing that would make me finally buy one. I mean, come on, they might as well let us tbh.
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Most likely it will be a lower internal resolution that is upscaled to 4k. Microsoft is more relying on post processing effects like HDR to make up for this.
The only thing I am worried about, is both Sony and Microsoft are going to have titles that require the higher powered variants of their consoles. They say there won't be, but I don't believe that.
Nintendo titles do this already, and have depending on console. Few games required the extra memory pack on the n64, and their portable consoles like the DS, and 3DS are notorious for this.
Yup, upscaled from 1080p. The numbers don't make sense otherwise.
Xbox One S fully supports native 1080p output at 60fps. For gamers with a 4K device, content is upscaled into 4K. With four times the resolution of standard HD, 4K Ultra HD delivers the clearest, most realistic video possible. Xbox One S offers High Dynamic Range support for video and gaming, so you can experience richer, more luminous colors in games like Gears of War 4 and Scalebound. With a higher contrast ratio between lights and darks, HDR technology brings out the true visual depth of your games.
http://www.neowin.net/news/besides-4k-and-hdr-support-the-xbox-one-s-might-also-bring-better-game-performance
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It wouldn't surprise me if a revised Xbox is a lot more powerful than a revised PS4, they got it wrong on many levels and played it safe hardware wise last time.
Still not happy about a console revision, but who knows how it will turn out.
Not been sold on either console this gen, Sony has the better exclusives so far but you could borrow a PS4 for a week to play them all.
Yeah i think MS will make sure they have the more powerful hardware next time, which i am unsure is a good or bad thing for us gamers in the long run, seeing as they have had to fight to win consumers this time round by adding feature after feature to get people to buy a xb1, hell if it were not for them being hammered by Sony and the PS4 we would not be sitting with BC 360 games, 1 account Gold sharing on xb1 and BC 360 games, GWG, BC GWG, and now pc/xbox crossbuy.
These days i have to remind myself this is gaming hardware we are talking about and not which UK political party are getting voted out because they got complacent with the public, when did both become so similar. lol