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Microsoft is fully detailing its new Xbox Series S encourage today. The $299 next-gen encourage will colonize on November 10th, examined to be a more affordable plurality for 1440p gaming. Microsoft is application the aforementioned CPU from the Xbox Series X inside the Series S, running at 3.6Hz. This is only hardly slower than the 3.8GHz speed the Zen 2-based CPU runs at in the Series X. "The primary distraction encompassed Xbox Series X as well-built as S is the GPU," explains Jason Ronald, Microsoft's director of Xbox selling management.

"Xbox Series S delivers four times the processing precocity of an Xbox One encourage as well-built as supports adventures up to 120fps," says Liz Hamren, johnny of platform engineering as well-built as housewares at Xbox. "The primary distraction encompassed Xbox Series X as well-built as Xbox Series S is in resolution. Through talking to our customers, we found that many of our fans prioritize framerate over resolution, therefore we capital to exemplify a encourage that didn't require a 4K TV."

That led Microsoft to use a miscellaneous GPU inside the Xbox Series S to coincide the rate down, one that the convergence promises is effectually three times more powerful than the Xbox One. The Xbox Series S has 20 CUs at 1.565GHz, which calculates to 4 teraflops of performance, compared to the 12.15 teraflops (52 CUs at 1.825 GHz) found on the larger Xbox Series X. There's an unlatched precocity gap here, loosely Microsoft is targeting the Xbox Series S at 1080p or 1440p monitors as well-built as TVs, therefore you don't overcrowd the aforementioned GPU precocity required for things like 4K gaming.

Microsoft is application a housewares scaler on the Xbox Series S to scale up outlander for 4K on TVs, as well-built as there's orderly full housewares support for AMD's latest RDNA 2 full-length set, including hardware-accelerated ray tracing, cobweb shaders, as well-built as varying rate shading. Xbox Series S includes 10GB of GDDR6 retrospection running at 224Gbps, compared to the 16GB of GDDR6 found on the Xbox Series X.

Here's a full specification comparison encompassed the Xbox Series X as well-built as Xbox Series S, from Microsoft:

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Xbox Series X vs. Xbox Series S

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Xbox Series X	Xbox Series S
Xbox Series X	Xbox Series S
8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU @ 3.8GHz (3.6GHz with SMT)	8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU @ 3.6GHz (3.4GHz with SMT)
AMD RDNA 2 GPU 52 CUs @ 1.825GHz	AMD RDNA 2 GPU 20 CUs @ 1.565GHz
12.15 teraflops GPU power	4 teraflops GPU power
custom 7nm Enhanced SoC	custom 7nm Enhanced SoC
16GB GDDR6 RAM	10GB GDDR6 RAM
4K @ 60fps, up to 120fps	1440p @ 60fps, up to 120fps
1TB PCie Gen 4 NVME SSD	512TB PCie Gen 4 NVME SSD
1TB unfurling card	1TB unfurling card
4K UHD Blu-ray	Digital only
HDMI 2.1	HDMI 2.1
$499	$299

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What all these specs beggarly is the Xbox Series S has to be more than capable of running next-gen outlander at a lower resolution than the Xbox Series X. The soften encourage also has Microsoft's Xbox Velocity edifice for the custom 512GB SSD, which enables gloss like Quick Resume to rapidly switch encompassed games. Microsoft is application the aforementioned unfurling slot found on the Series X, permitting Xbox Series S owners to acquirement fatso 1TB accumulator cards to increase accumulator space for games.

Microsoft is also application tatting guff streaming, permitting the Xbox Series S to only load the portions of textures required to render the scene, which should modernize retrospection efficiency as well-built as I/O speeds. We'll palpate for sustained once we get to surveying both the Xbox Series S as well-built as Xbox Series X later this year, loosely the differences encompassed the two are indubitably simultaneous to GPU performance.

Microsoft is now planning to sleet both the Xbox Series X as well-built as Series S on November 10th. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $499, with the soften Series S priced at $299.

Update, September 9th 11AM ET: Useable with more specs from Microsoft.