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Xbox Series X Specs and Feature Showcase Videos Released

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backwards compatibility, a lot of elements were elaborated on to help people better understand the console they will be getting.

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Here are the full Xbox Series X specs. To help people understand them, there is a full Xbox.com glossary that defines like Auto Low Latency Mode, Direct ML, Project Acoustics, and RDNA,

U: 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 U

GPU: 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU

Die Size: 360.45mm

Process: 7mm Enhanced

Memory: 16 GB GDDR6 w/320mb 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

Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive

Performance Target: 4K @ 60 FPS, Up to 120 FPS

Here’s a picture showing how these details can impact the Xbox Series X’s speeds.

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This was accompanied by an Austin Evans and Digital Foundary hands-on videos looking at the system.

Here’s the Evans Xbox Series X look.

And here is Digital Foundary going over the Xbox Series X specs.

Some more specialized videos were shared on the official Xbox YouTube . One looked at the Quick Resume feature.

The other looked at the new system’s loading times.

Microsoft also looked at the size of the Xbox Series X’s tower. It is a 151mm x 151mm x 301mm system. To provide an even better idea of scale, it provided an image showing the system next to a refrigerator.

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The Xbox Series X has a holiday 2020 release window.


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