Microsoft gave us the first idea as to what the next generation of its Xbox will be. The company, according to The Verge, will launch two new consoles next year, in 2020 – to replace the Xbox One X and the Xbox One S. Codenamed Project Scarlett, the new console was teased by Microsoft ahead of the E3 Entertainment Expo.
The new console, according to the teaser, will be four times as powerful as the Xbox One X. A GDDR6 RAM and a custom-designed CPU based on AMD’s Zen 2 and Radeon RDNA will help achieve that purpose.
The new console will also support 8k gaming with frame rates of up to 120 fps in games, ray tracing and variable refresh rate as well.
An SSD drive will store everything on the new console. A Microsoft official was reported saying that the company is using a new type of SSD drive for the next console.
This should boost performance by 40x over the current generation according to Microsoft, and that means games will load a lot faster, The Verge said.
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