The specs for Microsoft’s supercharged Xbox One: the Project Scorpio console are impressive.The GPU has nearly four times as many compute units as the original Xbox One and the memory on the console will be 108GB/s faster than the memory in both the Xbox One S and Scorpio’s primary challenger, the PS4 Pro. On paper this thing reads like lightning.
At the heart of Project Scorpio is an all-new AMD GPU, which features 40 “customised” Radeon compute units (compared to just 12 on the Xbox One and Xbox One S) clocked at an impressive 1172MHz. The new GPU is paired with 12GB of GDDR5 memory. In theory, latency will be higher compared to the Xbox One’s ESRAM, but Microsoft says that “in terms of aggregate performance, the improved bandwidth and improved GPU performance means we don’t hit any issues.”
That memory is divided up into 12 1GB chips, each of which sports a 32-bit interface to create a 384-bit bus. In total, there’s 326GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is substantially higher than the 204GB/s of the Xbox One and the 218GB/s of the PS4 Pro. Indeed, it’s even higher than AMD’s own RX 480, and higher than Nvidia’s top-of-the-line GTX 1080.
