Microsoft may have not mentioned much about the Xbox Scorpio price or release date but it did confirm Xbox Scorpio specifications.
Xbox Scorpio Specifications:
- Project Scorpio CPU Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz
- GPU 40 customised compute units at 1172MHz
- Memory 12GB GDDR5
- Memory Bandwidth 326GB/s
- Hard Drive 1TB 2.5-inch
- Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray
- Speaking to Eurogamer, Microsoft confirmed that it’s not using AMD’s Ryzen CPU.
“On the CPU side of things, we could still meet our design goals with the custom changes we made,” Kevin Gammill, Group Program Director of the Xbox Core platform points out. “At the end of the day we are still a consumer product. We want to hit the price-points where consumers want to purchase this. It’s about balancing the two.”
The company has also went on to explain why they have made certain technical decisions:
“For 4K assets, textures get larger and render targets get larger as well. This means a couple of things – you need more space, you need more bandwidth. The question, though, was how much?” asks Nick Baker, Distinguished Engineer, Silicon. “We’d hate to build this GPU and then end up having to be memory-starved. We were able to look at the effect of different memory bandwidths, and it quickly led us to needing more than 300GB/s memory bandwidth. So in the end we ended up choosing 326GB/s. On Scorpio we are using a 384-bit GDDR5 interface – that is 12 channels. Each channel is 32 bits.”
