The Xbox Series X/S Official Thread

[Tenchi Ryu]

Just in case you didn't hear it the first time.

A simple tweet yet so much ether

 

[Insensitive]

2080 Super is basically what this thing is gonna perform like. That’s nuts.

shyt's crazy breh.
I won't front, I wasn't even expecting 2080 performance.
I can't wait for what games are gonna look like in a few years

 

[spliz]

shyt's crazy breh.
I won't front, I wasn't even expecting 2080 performance.
I can't wait for what games are gonna look like in a few years

This shyt is gonna push gaming forward. The devs are gonna be making miracles with these consoles.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

shyt's crazy breh.
I won't front, I wasn't even expecting 2080 performance.
I can't wait for what games are gonna look like in a few years

As well as games already existing, this finna feel like when you buy that new pc that eats up all the games your old one couldn’t handle. Final fantasy 15 at a rock solid 60 FPS gonna be insane

 

[Leasy]

<----- Time stamps for the brehs

**Slight advantages with near identical results.
They also said that with optimizations it should perform even better than a 2080 (mesh shading, VRS, etc.) at which
point it should run the game faster than a 2080.

It was also being compared against a computer with 16 cores & 64gb's alongside that RTX 2080 for reference.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

The hardware ray tracing solution in the XSX is 13TF by itself.

Inside Xbox Series X: the full specs

The ray tracing difference
RDNA 2 fully supports the latest DXR Tier 1.1 standard, and similar to the Turing RT core, it accelerates the creation of the so-called BVH structures required to accurately map ray traversal and intersections, tested against geometry. In short, in the same way that light 'bounces' in the real world, the hardware acceleration for ray tracing maps traversal and intersection of light at a rate of up to 380 billion intersections per second.

"Without hardware acceleration, this work could have been done in the shaders, but would have consumed over 13 TFLOPs alone," says Andrew Goossen. "For the Series X, this work is offloaded onto dedicated hardware and the shader can continue to run in parallel with full performance. In other words, Series X can effectively tap the equivalent of well over 25 TFLOPs of performance while ray tracing."

It is important to put this into context, however. While workloads can operate at the same time, calculating the BVH structure is only one component of the ray tracing procedure. The standard shaders in the GPU also need to pull their weight, so elements like the lighting calculations are still run on the standard shaders, with the DXR API adding new stages to the GPU pipeline to carry out this task efficiently. So yes, RT is typically associated with a drop in performance and that carries across to the console implementation, but with the benefits of a fixed console design, we should expect to see developers optimise more aggressively and also to innovate. The good news is that Microsoft allows low-level access to the RT acceleration hardware.

 

[Brief Keef]

banjo kazooie on series x

 

[DPresidential]

Can't believe it but I'm legit blown away by what Ray tracing seems to be able to do.

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Don’t know if this vids been posted yet, but at the 8:10 mark he shows the systems quick resume capabilities in real time. Breh hopping between 4-5 different games and they don’t even take long to load up

 

[FooFighters]

 

[the_FUTURE]

banjo kazooie on series x

they know they can crush buildings with this.

 

[ball15life]

I've never seen a company this confident in their launch

 

[the_FUTURE]

I've never seen a company this confident in their launch

Halo Infinite at launch plus X cloud should have all talks and good sales in MS' direction come holidays. Seeing as I'm not much of a power caring type, if the lockhart is cost efficient, I might pick that up, or sub to Xcloud. either way, MS will eat this coming gen, I'm sure of it.

 

[FooFighters]