Tuesday, June 30th 2020
Microsoft Rumored To Release Budget Xbox Series S Console
In a recent report by the Verge, Microsoft is reportedly planning a budget console to go along with the Xbox Series X known as the Xbox Series S. The Xbox Series S will be a successor to the popular Xbox One S, codenamed Lockhart it's set to feature the key next-generation improvements found in the Xbox Series X and provide them at a lower price point.
Sources say that the Xbox Series S will target 1080p 60FPS and 1440p 6̶0̶F̶P̶S̶ 30FPS gaming performance, this will be achieved with roughly 1/3rd of the GPU power at 4 TeraFLOPs, and 10 GB of GDDR6 RAM. The Xbox Series S console is rumored to share the same 7 nm AMD Zen 2 SoC a̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶c̶l̶o̶c̶k̶ and the same ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 SSD. The console may not feature a disc drive like the Xbox One S All Digital Edition. Microsoft is yet to publicly say anything about the console, so take these rumors with a grain of salt.
Update Jun 30th: Sources tell Eurogamer that Microsoft is planning to unveil the console at an event in August.
Sources:
The Verge, @tomwarren, Eurogamer
Sources say that the Xbox Series S will target 1080p 60FPS and 1440p 6̶0̶F̶P̶S̶ 30FPS gaming performance, this will be achieved with roughly 1/3rd of the GPU power at 4 TeraFLOPs, and 10 GB of GDDR6 RAM. The Xbox Series S console is rumored to share the same 7 nm AMD Zen 2 SoC a̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶c̶l̶o̶c̶k̶ and the same ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 SSD. The console may not feature a disc drive like the Xbox One S All Digital Edition. Microsoft is yet to publicly say anything about the console, so take these rumors with a grain of salt.
Update Jun 30th: Sources tell Eurogamer that Microsoft is planning to unveil the console at an event in August.
57 Comments on Microsoft Rumored To Release Budget Xbox Series S Console
Edit.
This mentions 1440p 60, riiight...
It's a good idea, and gives people a cheap way for next gen without sacrificing a lot.
Hopefully they offer it with and without disk, it doesn't cost a lot anyway.
Series S
Just need a Series E to complete the set.
it should have the same framerates with the big series X but at a lower resolution
2. According to the reference models, out of the whole Turing family (including the 16XX cards), the 2080Ti has the lowest boost clocks (and the 2080 Super has higher memory transfer rate than the 2080Ti) yet is the fastest card of the lineup.
1 datum doesn't mean anything in itself.
2. 2080Ti is faster than 2080 Super, because It has the highest processing power(TFLOPs) and highest bandwidth(GB/s) of all Turing GPUs and this doesn't depend only on clockspeed and memory transfer rate, that's just part of It.
The 4tflops of series S should about equal the 6tflops of the one X.
They key differences are -
1. The new series S will have the series X's exact same cpu which is miles ahead of the one in the Xbox one x (and was its weakest part holding the entire console back even though they had enough gpu power)
2. Where the Xbox one x and its 6tflops were always shooting for 4k, the series S will use what is effectively the same gpu power and that much more powerful cpu to truly deliver the same experiences as the series x (just at a PURPOSEFULLY lower resolution of 1080 for 60fps games and possibly 1440 for the ones set to run at 30 fps on the series X).
It makes total sense and because the cpu is the EXACT same it will in no way hold back games as the difference in gpu power required to do 1080p to 4k is 4x less. For games that are stuck at 30 fps on the series X drop to a 1440p bump is still possible and within that 3x lower processing power. Again some games may still need to go 1080p (or something in between via VRS and DRS).You didn't update the 1440p/30 fps part you left it quoting 1440p/60 and why many are questioning the article still.You do know 4k requires roughly 4x the GPU power vs 1080p and 1440(at 30 fps) is within the 3x less power (4/12) that differentiates them.
By keeping the exact same everything else (with reduced memory again because that'd directly tied to resolution) they can offer. Slower cost lower resolution version without compromising the experience of series x owners.
I used 50% for Polaris vs RDNA2.
If It's meant just for 1080p players, then the potential buyers are mainly with older TV, because I hardly can believe many people would buy a new TV with only FullHD resolution when the price difference is not very big.