Monday, March 16th 2020
Xbox Series X Semi-custom SoC Features 320-bit Memory Interface, 10 GB or 20 GB Memory
Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X entertainment system is shaping up to be a technological monstrosity. Xbox group head at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, last revealed a picture of its semi-custom SoC back in January, by setting it as his Twitter display picture. Over the following weeks, many more technical details, such as the chip's 12 TFLOP/s combined compute power, would be let out. Spencer updated his display picture revealing a segment of the Xbox Series X mainboard with the SoC and memory chips surrounding it. The picture reveals the large SoC package in the center, surrounded on three sides by ten memory chips, possibly GDDR6, each with its own wiring to the SoC. This indicates that the SoC features a 320-bit wide memory interface.
As for the memory density, there's no way to tell. It could be 10 GB if those are 8 Gbit memory chips, or 20 GB if those are 16 Gbit. It boils down to which device the Xbox Series X the company wants to succeed. The Xbox One S features 8 GB of DDR3, while the spruced up Xbox One X features 12 GB of GDDR5. If the new Xbox Series X succeeds the latter, then it could very well feature 20 GB, more so given Microsoft's lofty design goals (4K UHD gaming with real-time ray-tracing). Microsoft leverages hUMA to use a common memory pool for both the CPU and GPU. Designed in collaboration with AMD on a TSMC 7 nm-class node (likely the N7P), the SoC features "Zen 2" CPU cores, and a GPU based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture.
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Phil Spencer (Twitter)
As for the memory density, there's no way to tell. It could be 10 GB if those are 8 Gbit memory chips, or 20 GB if those are 16 Gbit. It boils down to which device the Xbox Series X the company wants to succeed. The Xbox One S features 8 GB of DDR3, while the spruced up Xbox One X features 12 GB of GDDR5. If the new Xbox Series X succeeds the latter, then it could very well feature 20 GB, more so given Microsoft's lofty design goals (4K UHD gaming with real-time ray-tracing). Microsoft leverages hUMA to use a common memory pool for both the CPU and GPU. Designed in collaboration with AMD on a TSMC 7 nm-class node (likely the N7P), the SoC features "Zen 2" CPU cores, and a GPU based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture.
20 Comments on Xbox Series X Semi-custom SoC Features 320-bit Memory Interface, 10 GB or 20 GB Memory
....wouldn't be the 1st time :D
$549 is absolute max that I could imagine that would cost (and even then, likely figure will be $499)
I'm also hoping the PS5 is similar in power.
Biggie.
it's half the die size of a 2080ti... for cpu and gpu + chipset etc....
it's just some gddr6 + nand which is really a lot of cost here.
By the way, 2080Ti at 7nm would be in the range of 450mm^2, only ~25% bigger.
Both Microsoft and Sony are going to subsidize console hardware this time around.
That APU, 1TB of Flash, memory amount is not small either.
Usage of 2080 is also under 1%.
2080 is not high end, amiright?
Consoles are poised to wipe the floor with PC market.
Oh, and don't get me dragged into PC vs consoles, I game on both.
But that's not all.
Console exclusives will laugh at the best PC has to offer to run on 2080Ti (and whatever +40% overpirced thing comes out in the foreseable futrue).But at best 15% faster.Actually 3 or even 4.