Gadgetory

I have now had a full week with the xbox 1x playing games running tests and now I feel confident and bring you guys my full review so let's break down my thoughts on the Xbox 1x let's take a look at the technical specifications of the Xbox monix compared to the more standard version the 1s and how much of an upgrade it actually is power wise first off the CPU now both of them make use of eight core processors but the 1s is the clock - at one point seven five gigahertz whereas the One X is at 2.3 gigahertz it's the important takeaway here the One X is 30% faster now things get a bit more interesting with the GPU the really kind of popular way people are measuring this right now are how many teraflops each one is capable of you don't know what that is the basic idea is a teraflop is how many different floating-point calculations these systems are capable of so in the one s's case it's 1.4 teraflops whereas the Xbox one X is that a whopping six teraflops so just over four times the power of the 1s and lastly as far as performance goes there's how much RAM each system has the Xbox montes has eight gigabytes whereas the One X has 12 an important thing to note here though is that when it comes to the Xbox three gigabytes of RAM are always dedicated to the system itself and not actually running games so when we're talking about the amount of RAM available for gaming it's actually not increased from 8 to 12 it's an increase from 5 to 9 almost twice as much and then last but not least let's take a look at the hard drive sizes whereas the Xbox one as originally launched at 500 gigabytes most ones you grabbed today though are a terabyte and occasionally there have been limited runs of 2 terabyte systems the Xbox one X on the other hand currently is only planned for a one terabyte hard drive but it is very important to note that is not the same style of hard drive is actually a faster one to ensure that 4k loading times is not going to be horrifically long and in fact a side benefit of this is that if you're still playing games in 1080p you're gonna see faster load times compared to the 1s it's also worth noting that as far as ports go the One X is exactly the same as the 1s they have the same power port they both have an HDMI IN an HDMI out two USB ports on the back when USB port in the front IR out optical out and an Ethernet port now what all this power means the Xbox one X are two things 4k gaming and what's called Xbox one enhanced games otherwise print that ribbiting between the One X and the one s is the same they both do 4k video playback they both do HDR in both video and games and they have the same multimedia services the important thing is how it impacts the visuals of your gameplay experience now the four key aspect is a pretty obvious upgrade for those of you that own 4k TVs you're getting a higher resolution and therefore a much more higher quality image obviously not every game offers true native 4k it's something that's based on a game by game basis but even if you're playing a game that isn't patched specifically for 4k resolutions you're still gonna see it upscale to have a slightly better image now some other titles aren't going to have native 4k either but instead just have better variations for instance quantum break makes use of more advanced upscaling techniques so while it is rendering out at 1440 you're going to get a better image than normal otherwise there are other games that are just gonna get full-blown native 4k which looks fantastic like 4 to 7 Gears of War for a lot of big first party titles from Microsoft now a consequence of this is that the games are getting much larger and a really cool thing that Microsoft has done is that games are gonna have variable download sizes based on which system you own so for instance if you're still playing on an Xbox one s you obviously don't need 4k textures for Forte's us so they use only gonna be 67 gigs but if you get it on the 1x it's gonna weigh in at 95 so as a result you're gonna fill up the one terabyte hard drive of the Xbox one X very very quickly especially if you're playing a lot of big-name triple-a stuff so as a result getting an external hard drive on a system like this is much more of a necessity now for those of you that don't own 4k TVs you might be wondering well is there any reason for me to consider getting a 1x in the first place and the answer I've come to is well actually yes for three different reasons first off super sampling now if a game supports 4k resolution even if your TV doesn't actually do that the Xbox one X will do what's called super sampling where it'll render out the 4k image and then downscale it to your 1080p resolution this results in a crisper cleaner and better image than something that's rendered out in 1080p in the first place is it as good as native 4k no but it is better reason number two like I said earlier thanks to the faster hard drive you will experience faster boot and load times for all of your games for instance in Gears of War 4 when we're loading up a specific level in the Xbox one as it takes 44 seconds whereas loading up that same level on the 1x only took 38 and lastly and by far the biggest reason why is Xbox one enhanced now if you ever look at game cases for Xbox one games you might start to see these new tags showing up 4k which means it supports 4k gaming HDR supports HD bar and then Xbox one enhanced which is a bit of a more miscellaneous mixed term this means that the game offers some kind of improvements in enhancements on the Xbox one X that can't just simply be catalyzed as being 4k or HDR for instance on Gears War 4 if you're playing the game on a 1080p screen maybe the option to play with better visuals or better performance with better visuals while you're still getting a 1080p resolution it's gonna be using that super sampling I mentioned earlier and gonna have enhanced graphical effects on top of that while keeping the 30 frames per second that you normally see in the campaign and whored modes on the other hand if you do performance mode you're gonna see slight visual upgrades but it's still gonna be 1080p but most importantly it'll actually be playing at a full 60 frames per second which in my opinion is a much better choice now we do our videos in 24 frames so obviously you can't really see that right now so we're going to link to another video that's unlisted so you can check that out and see the difference between 4k 30 and 1080p 60 frames now an important thing to note is that just like with 4k support not all the games are going to have some kind of Xbox one enhanced mode it's up to developers on a game by game basis so not every single game is gonna get frame rate increases not every single game is going to make use of super sampling or enhanced visual effects so if you don't own a 4k TV and you want to make use of Xbox 1x enhancements you've got to make sure to pay attention to what games you care about and whether or not they're gonna see any kind of upgrades thankfully Xbox is pushing really hard to make sure that a lot of their first-party titles get some kind of enhancement unless it's really unnecessary for a game like say cuphead and it looks like that a lot of big-name triple-a games are also getting support as well for instance Middle Earth shadow of war and rise of the Tomb Raider also support increased frame rates like Gears of War 4 even more surprisingly is the fact that not only our Xbox one games getting these enhancements but also some 360 titles as well we're seeing some of the backwards compatible stuff get improvements - we're getting greater color depth and actual upscaled 4k resolutions so you can play Halo 3 or Fallout 3 or even the original Assassin's Creed with better Jools than ever what's even more impressive about all this is that you're not only getting this increased performance but the system is still running just as quiet as past systems it is maybe slightly louder than the 1s but you're really only going to notice this if you're in a perfectly quiet room otherwise you're never really going to notice the sound the system makes now if oh this is sounding good to you guys so far I have some good news for you I'm actually giving away a project Scorpio edition Xbox one X that I'm doing alongside with Jon from TLD today so if you want details on how to enter that giveaway check out the link down below in the description now there is one other thing I want to talk about with the system though and that's how it looks compared to the 1s cuz I gotta be honest with you guys I don't like a look at the one that's better now to be honest part of this comes from the fact that I don't like the look of an all-black system I know a lot of people have been clamoring they want a black Xbox that isn't just the original one but a house you think it's a downgrade it's not that I think white just looks better I just like the two-tone approach I like the contrast which this doesn't give you at all one thing I do like about the 1x though is that I really like how they move the disc drive to being this kind of hidden space between the main body and the base I think it looks really good it gets this kind of just nice solid monolithic look to it which I do think is an upgrade so I'm really excited to see if any more colors for this is gonna come out in the future but as for right now definitely like a look at the planets more so the ultimate question is this should you buy an xbox 1x maybe look if you're on a 4k TV the benefits are obvious and even if you don't like I said there's a lot of games that do benefit from the increased power it's just whether or not the games getting those upgrades for you is worth spending an extra 2 to 250 bucks if you already own Xbox one is spending 500 ollars all over again to get a new system is a bit of a harder sell but if you don't have an Xbox one yet I honestly do think it's worth saving up to get the system especially as more and more games adopt upgrades like 60 frames cuz every game that gets the 60 frame patch makes the system all the more worth it in my opinion