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so this morning Eurogamer got the chance to exclusively reveal details on the hardware for microsoft's upcoming 8.5 generation system Xbox one Scorpio and it's kind of amazing so real quick to give a little background on this what's really interesting about the development of the Scorpio is how it kind of worked in Reverse compared to past systems normally when you're making a new gaming system you just make some powerful hardware and games we made based on that usually ylc games get better and better over time because you learn to make better use of the resources scorpio works in Reverse though in that we already have the xbox one out we ready have a number of games out so the goal was to take those games and make sure to test a system that will actually run all of them at native 4k and even at 60 frames per second doing so so what does it take for the Xbox one Scorpio to achieve 4k console gaming well it has a custom eight core processor running at 2.3 gigahertz that 30% faster than the original Xbox one energy view consisting of core units running at 1172 megahertz that's four point six times more powerful in the original Xbox one and one point five times more powerful than the ps4 Pro meaning that original stated goal of achieving six teraflops has happened it also has 12 gigabytes of RAM with 326 gigabytes per second bandwidth which is way faster than the ps4 Pro and once again this is divided between the UI and actual gameplay whereas before it was a 5 and 3 split it's now 8 gigabytes dedicated to gaming and 4 gigabytes for the UI so we're going to also run as a native 4k now it's worth noting that while most game systems do of course have some custom parts the scorpio has been customized throughout entirely for the purpose of having maximum efficiency in both energy consumption and cooling including a new vapor cooling technology now along with this we've also confirmed that the system will have a one terabyte hard drive it will have an internal power supply like the Xbox 1s so no more giant brick on the cable anymore and it's going to have these same back ports as the Xbox 1s including a power port HDMI IN HDMI out a pair of USB ports optical Ethernet and an IR port so there's a bunch of fancy numbers but what does it actually all mean in practice well as a proof-of-concept Xbox showed a stress test demo of 4 to 6 using the same graphs that have on Xbox one but running at 4k and according to Eurogamer it ran at a perfectly smooth 60 frames per second now of course four to six is a very well optimized game and it is a first party game from Microsoft so that means that while it does work there it doesn't necessarily hold true for third party titles but it does prove that 4k gaming on a console is possible another really cool thing that was noted too is that the scorpion is designed to output in whatever resolution you want regardless of the mod where you're using so if you're using a 1080p display you can still render out at 4k and have it super sample to the screen resulting in a crisper image something that ps4 pro had the option to do but did it now speaking the ps4 Pro the scorpio is definitely more powerful for those of you wondering though they do have very different philosophies of how to approach 4k gaming the pro is a sort of affordable option that went for native 4k gaming and a small handful of titles but for the most part relied on techniques like checkerboard upscaling to make it look as close as possible while saving some performance the scorpy on the other hand is this highly custom souped-up machine that's going for brute force actual native 4k gaming and something like that while awesome isn't going to come cheap we still don't have a for-sure release date just yet or if for sure price point but go away things look we're going to find a release date at e3 with a price point probably around 500 bucks maybe as low as 450 if they're going to be really really aggressive with it you