DF: Xbox Series X APU Roughly Estimated to Be 13% Larger Than Xbox One X APU

Following our initial Xbox Series X APU die shot analysis, Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter fired up an APU analysis of his own.

[darthv72]

I wish it was one of those 64 core threadripper chips in there but hey... I'll take what I can get so long as its cheap ($499 or less).

[xenz]

would be better if it was Ryzen 3950x tbh, but these cpus are waaaay too much to expect from these consoles :)

[FlyingFoxy]

That would be pointlessly expensive, it's also arguably dumb to suggest even a 16 core chip for games right now. Zen 3 would be better as that features (rumoured) up to 17% more IPC (speed at the same clocks as Zen 2 chips] and 100-200Mhz extra clockspeed, but it comes to PC in summer.

[AuraAbjure]

Zen 3 will be too expensive for a home console if they want to sell tens of millions of units.

[Dabigsiebowski]

I'd rather have an 8 core with an insanely perked out GPU, which sounds like what it is.

[AuraAbjure]

Yeah an 8 - core Zen 2 CPU running at least as fast as 3.2 GHz with an RDNA 2 GPU should please everyone.

Even a custom RDNA 1 GPU with the added hardware - based accelerated ray tracing would be good I think. That's what the public was anticipating up until Decmeber of last year anyway.

I'm still shocked and skeptical that an RDNA 2 chip could make its way into consoles this year because that means the product (RDNA 2 GPUs) will be initially released unto the public in the form of... a video game console? Wow. That is unless of course AMD releases RDNA 2 GPUs for desktops before November.

[MasterCornholio]

Now that's a big boy.

:)

[Sophisticated_Chap]

No, no, no, you're saying it all wrong….. it's 'big boi'.

[MasterCornholio]

Nah that's Loki when hes grown up.

[SyntheticForm]

Exciting times ahead.

[timotim]

Microsoft has been on point with their reveals thus far with actual meaningful nuggets of info, while keeping the bigger parts of the story under wraps. Phil Spencer basically gave more meaningful information with just one tweet on the same day others held an entire stage presentation. Keep it going.

[Thundercat77]

Some people are really sick on their minds with this stuff.

Total facepalm.

[NiteX]

I'm hoping to be impressed by next gen visuals, more so with animations and physics. I'm also hoping for some much improved AI. We don't have much longer to wait.

[Duke19]

Have high hopes for it - lets see how the games take advantage of the power.

[SephirothX21]

Now I give 0.13% more of a fck

[averagejoe26]

Next gen is only 13% larger?

[solidossnakos]

The die size is 13% larger, but the precision is 7nm for next gen compared to 16nm for the XboneX. So you'll end up fitting more transistors on the die.