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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Back compat with everything from the XB1 has sold me on the Scorpio already, it is a feature i am now taking for granted with my xbox 360 stuff popping up on my xb1 that this is very good news for me.
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Microsoft said the original XB1 would be 1080p @ 60FPS.
But did we get... a console that struggles to 30FPS and some games not at 1080p.
I really would not trust 10 dollars on M$ to tell the truth

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Current Xbox one is only able to sustain (and not always) 900p/30 fps 4 times this power is not enough to reach 4K/30.
It will need to be AT LEAST 5 or 6 times more powerful to reack 4K/30 fps.
60 FPS? Sure...in 1080.
"no-compromise": Tetris 4K 60 will be easy, other games will need heavy graphic downgrade.
4K gaming, easy to say...AGAIN.
MS PR BS about Xbox One on their words, by their PR (May 23, 2013):
If we think Ubi$hit PR is pure BS with their downgrades look again at MS ones.

I doubt the Scorpio is going to cost 1000+ dollars. Anybody who imagines they are getting 1000+ dollars of performance when buying a 400 dollars device can only blame themselves.
Kind of reminds you of those people back in the day who were all "OMG, somebody's selling their PS3 for 50 dollars on Ebay." And then they got an empty PS3 cardboard box. When something sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't true.
Still, it's going to kick Xbox One's ass easily. It would actually be compared to a whole lot of gaming PCs out there, which is more than Xbox One and PS4 could claim.
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speculating what happens 18 months from now...
I might become the king of Medellin cartel

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From TweakTown source linked in guru3d article:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52577/xbox-scorpio-powered-14-nm-polaris-zen-soc-4k-gaming/index.html
Current Xbox one is only able to sustain (and not always) 900p/30 fps 4 times this power is not enough to reach 4K/30.
It will need to be AT LEAST 5 or 6 times more powerful to reack 4K/30 fps.
More MS statements on the Scorpio power:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-announces-project-scorpio-console/1100-6440786/
60 FPS? Sure...in 1080.
"no-compromise": Tetris 4K 60 will be easy, other games will need heavy graphic downgrade.
4K gaming, easy to say...AGAIN.
MS PR BS about Xbox One on their words, by their PR (May 23, 2013):
Xbox One will support 4K output resolution and 3D
The next-gen Xbox One will include support for ultra high-resolution 4K as well as 3D, Microsoft's Larry Hryb revealed in a Yahoo chat session yesterday.
"Xbox One supports both 3-D and 4K," Hryb said in response to a question about the console including these features.
Following the Xbox One's unveiling on Tuesday, Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi told Forbes the console's video and interface will work with HDTVs.
"The video and interface portions , absolutely," he said. "Games developed for 1080p will run at 1080p, obviously."
"Xbox One supports both 3D and 4K, including 4K for Blu-ray"
Mehdi also revealed the console will support 4K for Blu-ray at launch, with the possibility of games and other content being available at 4K in the future if they are rendered at that resolution.
"There's no hardware restriction there at all," he said.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/23/4359450/xbox-one-will-support-4k-output-resolution-and-3d
If we think Ubi$hit PR is pure BS with their downgrades look again at MS ones.