Microsoft reveals the Xbox Series X specs







Microsoft is saying that the Xbox Series X will be the most powerful Xbox ever and now they have released details of what is inside the box.
“While the Xbox Series X will deliver a massive increase in GPU performance and continue to redefine and advance the state of art in graphics with new capabilities such as hardware-accelerated raytracing,” said Jason Ronald, Director of Product Management on Xbox Series X, “we don’t believe this generation will be defined by graphics or resolution alone.”
It will have 16GB of RAM, 1 TB of internal storage, and a full 12 Teraflops….of….whatever that is. The custom-designed processor is powered by an 8 core AMD Zen 2 CPU and an RDNA 2-class GPU.
“Xbox Series X is the biggest generational leap of SOC [System on a Chip] and API design that we’ve done with Microsoft, and it’s really an honour for AMD to be a trusted Microsoft partner for this endeavor,” said Sebastien Nussbaum, Corporate Vice President & Senior Fellow, Semi-Custom Products and Technologies at AMD. “The Xbox Series X is going to be a beacon of technical innovation leadership for this console generation and will propagate the innovation throughout the DirectX ecosystem this year and into next year.”
It will also support hardware-accelerated DirectX Raytracing, which simulates the properties of light and sound in real-time more accurately than any technology before it.
You can check out more details over on the Xbox blog.
CPU | 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/ SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU |
GPU | 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU |
Die Size | 360.45 mm2 |
Process | 7nm 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 Support |
Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-Ray Drive |
Performance Target | 4K @ 60 FPS, Up to 120 FPS |






