Xbox Series X console features 12 teraflops graphics processor

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Xbox Series X console features 12 teraflops graphics processor

Microsoft confirms key specs of games console plus new 'Smart Delivery' feature allowing one-size-fits-all game purchases

Microsoft has confirmed that its next games console, the Xbox Series X, will feature a 12 teraflops graphics processor, eight times more powerful than the Xbox One graphics chipset.

The announcement, made by the Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, via Microsoft's Wire news site, confirmed recent rumours about the machine, which is launching this winter.

Spencer's blog post also revealed a new Smart Delivery initiative that allows players to make one game purchase, which will then be optimised for whatever machine they're playing on, whether that's the Xbox Series X or Xbox One. "This technology empowers you to buy a game once and know that you are getting the right version of that game on whatever Xbox you're playing on," explains the blogpost.

Microsoft also listed further details about the console, reiterating its use of AMD's Zen 2 CPU microarchitecture and RDNA 2 graphics processing technology, promising, "cutting edge techniques resulting in higher frame rates, larger, more sophisticated game worlds, and an immersive experience unlike anything seen in console gaming."

The console also supports a graphics technique named Variable Rate Shading, a rendering technique which supplies more detail to the most prominent and important objects in the game world, boosting performance. Meanwhile, hardware-accelerated raytracing allows for the kind of advanced and highly detailed lighting and shadow effects usually seen in animated movies.

The Wire post goes on to mention the inclusion of an SSD drive, and another new feature, Dynamic Latency Input, which prom

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