After a long silence from the giants “Sony” and “Microsoft” amid rumors that overwhelmed social networking sites and the anticipation of players to unveil next-generation platforms, Microsoft fired a bullet at the beginning of the race towards the next generation by surprisingly revealing some of the specifications and features of their next platform Xbox Series X via A statement posted by Xbox President Phil Spencer on their official blog last Monday. Although the statement did not reveal all the information, there is still an official conference in which full disclosure will be made of what Xbox is preparing for the players, but all eyes are directed towards Sony, which is very conservative on its device and faces enormous pressure from players to reveal the PlayStation 5.
Healer
Xbox still maintains the final numbers and did not reveal the processor speed in its latest statement, but it confirmed that the processor will be Zen2, the latest version of AMD, which is based on the RDNA 2 architecture. It will provide four times the power of the Xbox One X processor, the most powerful platform in the current generation.
graphics card
After many rumors about the power of the Series X graphics card, Xbox finally confirmed that it will come with a power of 12 teraflops, twice the ONE X and eight times the original ONE. Xbox also confirmed that the graphics card will support a frame rate of up to 120 frames per second in case the developer wants to focus on the smoothness of the game. Or a resolution of up to 8K, according to what Spencer announced on his personal account on Twitter.
Ray-Tracing technology
Ray tracing, or simulated light ray tracing, is the biggest leap in graphics improvement in a long time. The Series X will support ray tracing simulation through a special piece to process this technology, which requires significant processing power that affects the frame rate, but provides a very beautiful and realistic appearance of light reflection in games.
No more waiting
With support for fast SSD storage, this means that installing and launching games will be faster than ever. It will also allow the game world to be very large and with many unique details. Spencer revealed the "Quick Resume" feature, which allows the game to be resumed in real time, as it stopped for more than one game at the same time.
Smart Delivery
Smart Delivery is what allows you to buy a game once and play it on any Xbox available to the gamer, current or next generation. Spencer said that developers and publishers will be able to use the feature on games that will be released on Xbox One and then come to the Series X.
additional features
The Xbox statement included several other features and technologies, such as HDMI 2.1 support, which allows the "variable frame rate" feature to maintain image fidelity. It also revealed the "adaptive response rate" feature, which makes the game's response rate to control hand pressures very fast.
Undisclosed
Although the power of the graphics card is the only number confirmed by Xbox – which is important for a large number of players – we still do not know some important numbers such as processor speed, SSD storage capacity and writing speed, in addition to the capacity and speed of random memory. Xbox is still hiding these numbers, in addition to the price of the device for the largest event to fully reveal the device in the coming days. As for the current time, the ball is in the court of Sony and its “PlayStation”.
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