Project Scorpio tech revealed Eurogamer. By Richard Leadbetter. Published 0. 60. Last week, Digital Foundry was invited to Microsofts Redmond campus for an exclusive preview of the technology in the next Xbox, codenamed Project Scorpio. As specs reveals go, this one is unprecedented its a first in terms of early access to key system architects, and one of a kind in terms of timing. Scorpio is seemingly running ahead of schedule, to the point where were likely six months away from release at least, and weve already seen impressive software running beautifully on production silicon. More Project Scorpio coverage. Therell be all the specs youll need in this piece, but the reason Microsoft flew us out to talk to those involved was straightforward the numbers, as impressive as they are, dont fully represent what the final product aims to deliver. Nor can the number of compute units and teraflops represent the passion the Xbox team has injected into this project. Microsoft has a point to prove. Its not just about performance, its about pushing the quality of console design to a new level in all areas. The headlines Combining smart design with sheer horsepower, Project Scorpio hits the six teraflop target set for it as E3 last year, thanks to a custom GPU that has been designed from the ground up for optimal performance on todays game engines and that runs at an unprecedentedly high clock speed for a console. The GPU is paired with 1. GB of fast GDDR5 memory and a custom eight core CPU, and the whole thing is housed in a compact body with integrated power supply and, for a console, state of the art cooling. Performance is remarkable. We saw a Forza Motorsport demo running on the machine at native 4. The official website of the City of New York. Find information about important alerts, 311 services, news, programs, events, government employment, the office of the. K and Xbox One equivalent settings, and it hit 6. Scorpio will hit its native 4. K target across a range of content, with power to spare to spend on other visual improvements. And while 4. K is the target, Microsoft is paying attention to 1. The push for 4. K and the Scorpio Engine. In Redmond, the pitch comes thick and fast before the tech deep dive kicks off. The overall outline of Project Scorpio has evolved since Phil Spencer presented it at last years E3, and in some key respects it sounds familiar to the Play. Station 4 Pros proposition a point not lost on Microsoft. K ultra HD visuals to suit the new generation of televisions are clearly the target, but Microsofts solution means substantial spec upgrades over the Pro design in virtually all areas. That said, Sonys philosophy of smart GPU design is also in effect here, executed in a very different manner, and backed up with a lot more horsepower. To me, 4. K means a very specific set of things. Its a lot more than delivering those eight million plus pixels to the screen while playing games, says Kevin Gammill, Group Program Director of the Xbox Core platform. Its about delivering those pixels with 4. K assets, so they look great. Its about delivering those pixels with HDR and wide colour gamut fidelity. Home Articles Xbox One Xbox One X Inside the next Xbox Project Scorpio tech revealed Digital Foundry has the specs, has seen it running, and has talked to. Samsung Electronics 005930KS chose the elegant Armory on 66th Street on New Yorks Upper East Side as the venue for its unveiling of the Note 8, its follow. Wondering if your business needs an employee handbook This article provides a free employee handbook sample and will cover handbooks from start to finish. Andre Margono 9 Microsofts Recent Deprecation Announcement, What Does It Mean to You Dynamics CRM 2016 Update 1 New Feature Email Signature. Subscribe and SAVE, give a gift subscription or get help with an existing subscription by clicking the links below each cover image. A daily, indepth interview program providing context and background to the issues that face our region. Today were excited to announce the release of Bishop Barrons newest film and study program, David the King King David causes us to look back toward Adams. Its about delivering those pixels with no loss of frame rate compared to the 1. Spatial audio adds to the immersive experience as well to truly land that gameplay experience, its not just about what you see, but what you hear. Core to the new console is the Scorpio Engine, the new So. C system on chip developed once again in conjunction with AMD. In common with many aspects of the box, engineering the new processor was based on a revolutionary workflow one that could only really be achieved on a mid generation refresh design. Rich presents a final specs overview of Project Scorpio. Project Scorpio. Xbox One. PS4 Pro. CPUEight custom x. GHz. Eight custom Jaguar cores clocked at 1. GHz. Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2. GHz. GPU4. 0 customised compute units at 1. Best-Solutions-of-Sample-Cover-Letter-For-Mba-Program-For-Format-.jpg' alt='Sample Unveiling Program' title='Sample Unveiling Program' />MHz. GCN compute units at 8. MHz Xbox One S 9. MHz3. 6 improved GCN compute units at 9. MHz. Memory. 12. GB GDDR5. GB DDR33. 2MB ESRAM8. GB GDDR5. Memory Bandwidth. GBs. DDR3 6. 8GBs, ESRAM at max 2. GBs Xbox One S 2. GBs2. 18. GBs. Hard Drive. TB 2. GB1. TB2. TB 2. TB 2. 5 inch. Optical Drive. K UHD Blu ray. Blu ray Xbox One S 4. K UHDBlu rayAs we landed on 4. K, Andrew Goossen and team did a pretty deep analysis, Gammill continues. We have this developer tool called PIX Performance Investigator for Xbox. It lets us do some GPU trace capture. He and his team did a really deep analysis across a breadth of titles with the goal that any 9. K on Scorpio. That was our big stake in the ground, and so with that we began our work speccing out what the Scorpio Engine is. Its not a process of calling up AMD and saying Ill take this part, this part and this part. A lot of really specific custom work went into this. Traditionally, games creators have to work to the characteristics of the console platform, but because Scorpios design brief was to scale up existing titles to 4. K, the hardware team could profile actual, shipping games and customise the design to fit common characteristics. PIX provided the data that was then fed into a hardware emulator, where the Microsoft team could then see how those titles would run on prospective Scorpio hardware. Multiple configurations could be tested in order to get the best balance. What we did was to take PIX captures from all of our top developers. By hand we went through them and then extrapolated what the work involved would be for that game to support a 4. K render resolution, says Andrew Goossen, Technical Fellow, Graphics. Now we had a model for all of our top selling Xbox One games where we could tweak the configuration for the number of CUs, the clock, the memory bandwidth, the number of render back ends, the number of shader engines, the cache size. We could tweak our design and figure out what was the most optimal configuration. It was incredibly valuable for us to be able to make those trade offs, because ultimately these Xbox One titles are the ones that we. K. This is it the Scorpio Engine, in its final form. Its a 1. 6nm Fin. FET chip produced by TSMC. Its seven billion transistors contain a custom CPU cluster, 4. Radeon compute units and a whole lot more besides. Remarkably, all of this happened years ago, before any hardware was fabricated. The knowledge gained from profiling Xbox One titles also allowed for more intricate customisations to the AMD hardware. We also leveraged the fact that we understand the AMD architecture really, really well now and how well it does on our games, continues Goossen, so we were able to go through and examine a lot of the internal queues and buffers and caches and FIFOs that make up this very deep pipeline that, if you can find the right areas that are causing bottlenecks, for very small area on the processor we could increase those sizes and get effective wins. The end result is 4. Radeon compute units in the custom Scorpio Engine, ramped up to a remarkable 1. MHz a huge increase over Xbox Ones 8. MHz, and indeed PS4 Pros 9. MHz. We got a fair amount right or close to the mark in our original Project Scorpio spec analysis, but we were way off the mark in terms of prospective GPU clocks. Ideas Para Hacer Regalos Manuales De Amor. How Microsoft managed to achieve this speaks to the quality of the engineering elsewhere in the box, but the fact is that Scorpios GPU is only 9. MHz off the maximum boost clock of AMDs Polaris based RX 4. Those are the big ticket items, but theres a lot of other configuration that we had to do as well, says Goossen, pointing to a layout of the Scorpio Engine processor.