YouTube channel Moore's Law Is Dead updated the latest issue of the podcast, sharing information about the enhanced version of Xbox Series X|S. In the video, he said that Microsoft is preparing to upgrade the existing Xbox console. Among them, Xbox Series S Refresh will be updated in 2022, Xbox Series X Refresh will be updated in 2023, and AMD’s 6nm process APU will be used.
Moore's Law Is Dead revealed that Microsoft’s XboxSeries S upgrade is to counter Sony’s PlayStation 5 Slim, which is expected to be launched at the end of 2022. The new Xbox S series consoles are said to adopt higher specifications.
launched the Xbox Series S enhanced version so early because Microsoft believes that compared with Series X, Series S users rely more on Xbox Game Pass
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Therefore, Microsoft hopes to provide a better Xbox Series S, which will not only give new users the motivation to upgrade, but also cause the price of the existing Xbox Series S to drop to about $189-249, which will promote more Many users use the Xbox platform, even if they use it as an auxiliary game console.
According to the news, the price of Microsoft's new Xbox Series S will be less than $350, which will enhance its competitiveness with PlayStation 5. The new console can get a good specification upgrade from the latest 6nm AMDAPU,This may unlock all its 24 CU RDNA 2 GPUs. It is said that the reason for disabling these cores in the first place was the early 7-nanometer output, but now that the 7-nanometer is mature, and the 6-nanometer is more or less an optimized version of the 7-nanometer, we can see AMD launch faster APU designs, these The design is lock-free and has a higher clock speed.
The existing Xbox S series has 4 TFLOPs of computing power, so the 6-nanometer update may eventually have at least >5 TFLOPs of computing power. At a price of less than $350, this would be a great game console option and should put pressure on Sony's PlayStation 5 Slim.
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