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the next Xbox game console is set to show off some serious power Microsoft is giving the world a little more information about Project Scorpio it's the codename for a new Xbox system scheduled to come out later this year we have no idea what this thing is going to look like Microsoft first teased the existence of Scorpio last year at e3 but the company gave an early preview of some of the tech behind the machine to eurogamer's digital foundry and with that report we're giving more information on the specs for the machine it's gonna run at a computing speed of 6 teraflops which outdoes the playstation 4 pro at about 4.2 teraflops of graphics processing power and if you've never heard of a teraflop before that's okay because it's something no one really talks about but to give you some comparison it's almost as fast as some of the best video cars out there now and video makes one that gets close to nine teraflops and speeds so there you go now if you take a closer look at all the specs you're gonna see that this project Scorpio is clearly more powerful and faster than the Xbox one s but the PlayStation 4 Pro comes in at a close second now this isn't news but if you didn't already know the scorpio machine is not gonna play a different set of games Microsoft announced last year that it's gonna play all the same games that are out for the Xbox one s it's just about making a machine with better performance so why does any of this matter well PC game machines are typically more powerful than gaming consoles and this xbox scorpio is getting closer to what you can get on a high-end gaming computer and it's game makers already designing games to take advantage of those high-end pcs well ideally that same game can also look its best on the new Xbox now we'll just have to wait till June to see if Microsoft's gonna actually show off the machine at the e3 gaming conference I'm Bridget Carey and we'll keep you plugged into the latest tech news at cnet.com