Technical Specifications Xbox Scorpio - Eurogamer confirms more power than the PS4 Pro, and that's about it

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Today, there were some exlusives informations from Digital Foundry, the technological subsidiary of the Eurogamer site concerning the Xbox Scorpio. This announcement concerns the power of the next version of Microsoft Xbox, and we propose to discover below some technical information that will talk to the purists, and which show, as we already knew since the E3 2016, that The Xbox Scorpio will be more powerful than the PS4 Pro, caping up to a gross power of 6 Teraflops, against 4.2 for the Sony machine.

Xbox Scorpio - Technical Specifications of the Console

- Gross power : 6 Teraflops (4.2 for the PS4 Pro)

- Graphics units : 40 units clocked at 1172Mhz (36 to 911Mhz on PS4 Pro)

- Processor : Jaguar Evolved Custom x86 8 cores clocked at 2,3Ghz, 4MB cache L2

- The Xbox Scorpio is 4.6 times more powerful than the One (regarding its GPU)

- UHD / 4K Blu-ray Player

- RAM : 12GB of GDDR5 (8GB of GDDR5 on PS4 Pro)

- Bandwidth RAM : 326Gb / s (218 for the PS4 Pro)

- Upscale 4K of Xbox One games (total backward compatibility in both directions)

- Supersampling 1080p (for more beautiful games in Full HD if you do not have 4K TV)

- Capture your gameplay in 4K at 60 frames per second

Finally, Digital Foundry simply reveals the official technical specifications of the Xbox Scorpio, for a console that will be more powerful than any others, which we have known for months. On the other hand, the most relevant thing of this announcement is that according to Eurogamer, the Xbox Scorpio will be able to make the true 4K native, unlike a PS4 Pro which is content to upscaler via Checkerboard Rendering. The RAM gain and the graphics chip faster than on PS4 Pro are not for nothing, while the selling price of the Xbox Scorpio should be able to be contained in the 499 $ considering the embedded components. Rendezvous at the E3 2017 for the real announcement of Microsoft, and especially to see games turn!