Following months of speculation and leaks related to Microsoft's mid-generational refresh of the Xbox One, known as Project Scorpio, the software giant has now revealed that the official name of that system is the Xbox One X. On top of that, it's debuted a specification list, confirming much of the details we knew previously and revealing a few we didn't.
The CPU is a custom x86 chip with eight cores, running at 2.3GHz, which is a sizeable clock increase from the Xbox One and One S, which each ran a custom Jaguar CPU at 1.75GHz. Memory in the One X has been upgraded from 8GB to 12GB and more crucially it's now GDDR5. The One X does ditch the ESRAM that offered such high-speed file transfers on the older Xbox consoles, but the upgrade to GDDR5 should offer enough bandwidth to eliminate any latency issues.
The graphics chip sees the biggest upgrade in the new system, going from a custom 12-core AMD GPU running at 855MHz (914MHz on the One S) to a custom 40-core AMD graphics chip based on the Polaris architecture. It's also clocked at a much higher 1,172MHz. To keep such a highly clocked chip cool, Microsoft will employ a vapor chamber heatsink directly on the chip, much in the same way Nvidia has cooled the latest of its high-end Pascal graphics cards, like the 1080 Ti.
Storage wise the One X offers 1TB of HDD space and fully supports 4K UHD Blu-Ray discs. It does however require 245w of power, which is more than double the One S and a little more than the original Xbox One. That means it's not quite as efficient as its older renditions, but will offer much more power for the trade off and therefore HDR and 4K gaming at decent frame rates.
Most other specifications are identical to the Xbox One S, though this system is a little bigger and weighs two pounds more than the One S.
When the Xbox One X goes on sale on sale on November 7, it will cost $500.
