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when we first saw the specs of the new Xbox 1x we were intrigued to say the least there's 40 compute units it has native support for 4k 60fps gameplay are there asterisks next to these claims are gonna leave us disappointed or are we finally looking at a console that achieves both affordability and a PC like gameplay experience speaking of not being disappointed today's video is brought to you by tunnel bear tunnel bear makes it easy to privately and securely browse a more open Internet and to try tunnel bear for free go to Tunnel bear comm /l tt so even though it's being touted as the most powerful console ever Microsoft's latest keeps the familiar Xbox one branding rather than adopting a new name that would immediately indicate an all-new experience but this makes sense on some level although the Xbox one X is graphically more capable than last year's Xbox one s the changes to its internal architecture are evolutionary rather than revolutionary you'll be plugging in the same ports and playing the same games on the same controller just with prettier pixels so if you think about it buying a console has become more like a PC than ever before there are now two models of the PlayStation 4 and three of the Xbox one whose primary difference is our form factor power efficiency and graphics card configuration just like the gaming computer shelf at a Best Buy or something like that that is not to say though that the specification differences between the Xbox one X and its predecessors aren't significant on a sheet of paper to some people they're just higher numbers the higher clock Jaguar CPU is literally just that but looking closely at the graphics configuration of this new custom chip reveals that it's closest desktop PC equivalent is probably a Radeon rx 580 which is a very capable card so in practical terms they make possible the big selling point for the console its support for 4k gaming at 60fps natively understandably Microsoft hasn't been shy about this hardware investment marketing the Xbox one X as a premium experience now of course that doesn't mean you can expect to find a water cooling system and an SSD in it but it is equipped with a beefier vapor chamber heatsink than we saw in the Xbox one s that kept the hottest part of the system at a reasonable 70 degrees under load without getting obnoxiously loud and there's a one terabyte hard drive that is advertised as up to 50 percent faster a benefit not just to game load times but also when the system needs to stream in higher resolution textures as you wander around open environments feature-wise the 1x is state-of-the-art it comes with out-of-the-box support for both HDR 10 high dynamic range redundant I know you can learn more about it up here but basically it amounts to deeper blacks brighter whites and more vibrant colors on supported displays along with that there's also Dolby Atmos a surround sound technology that encodes audio as objects instead of individual channels for greater positional accuracy and realism with the proper home theater hardware Atmos is a game changer BB Atmos headphone is also supported with a $15.00 add-on purchase but the gears for dolby headphone experience and even some canned demos they were pretty underwhelming so I would hold off on this one at least for now now let's look at the visual experience we gathered our competitors and settled on a test suite of games that showed off the Xbox one X is different ways of rendering 4k content let's kick things off with four to seven this was one of the titles Microsoft demoed prior to the One X's launch to show off its native 4k 60 capabilities unsurprisingly the Xbox one X absolutely shined in this game not only did it give us much better detail than the upscaled 4k from the 1s it was even a little bit better than our $500 PC which was running the game at 4k on the recommended preset at around 45 FPS anti-aliasing helped our PC a little bit but the Xbox one X showed off details we couldn't quite make out on the PC even the controls on the dashboard inside our car and it did so while running the game noticeably more smooth so yeah score one for the One X here though of course this is a Microsoft exclusive game so the ps4 Pro didn't actually get a crack at it let's move right along to shadow of war another native 4k title but one that only runs at 30fps on the One X this game looked more or less equally nice on the ps4 Pro and the Xbox one Xbox Turk wallet' II and the 1s again was noticeably less sharp due to the lack of native 4 okay support the system that gave us the worst overall experience at 4k was our will our $500 PC which had to turn down to the lowest preset to be playable but obviously we are aware that that could be due to video memory limitation and should be noted that at 1080p and ultra details it kept pace much better now let's look at Assassin's Creed origins which uses checkerboard rendering at 4k on both of our flagship consoles this ended up being a very similar story to shadow of war with the ps4 pro and Xbox one X looking nearly identical the one asks a little bit less sharp and the $500 PC was only playable on the low preset until we turn down the resolution but you should note that on PC there's a lot of performance issues due to some funky DRM stuff that's going on a weird aside here is that although Ubisoft called Assassin's Creed on the Xbox one X the definitive version of the game we were very hard-pressed to notice anything that made it stand out but Microsoft says it isn't all about 4k and they claimed that the more powerful processor in the Xbox one X will like we've been doing on our PC during our testing allow the use of higher quality assets at 1080p so we turned down the resolution of both our One X and our PC to 1080p then cranked our PC presets up to ultra quality on each game and to the Xbox's credit all three games looked nearly identical with the small caveat that we needed to enable the favored quality setting on shadow of war this customizability is a fantastic trend that we support and we'd like to see continue but if you're going to be gaming on a 1080p display for the foreseeable future this doesn't necessarily give the most powerful console ever an unequivocal recommendation that's because for us if we're going to have a similar gaming experience anyways we'd rather go for a more versatile PC that isn't restricted to one specific console ecosystem with that said the 4k experience is a bit of a different story if you have to build a PC from the ground up for $500 especially if you're including windows that price the Xbox 1x craps all over the 4k gaming experience you'd be having if you want to buy brand-new hardware from a store with a warranty and all of that and not do the whole scrapyard worst thing at this point in time but if you're comparing to a ps4 Pro which is a hundred bucks cheaper and has the same support for technologies like HDR and Dolby Atmos bitstream pass-through along with very similar gaming performance in a fair amount of titles while that hundred dollar premium gets you the awesome UHD 4k blu-ray playback if you're going to use that and most importantly for the majority of people more powerful hardware that should deliver a higher percentage of games at krispy 4k sixty there's also the awesome benefit of Xbox play anywhere which allows you to play your games on both Xbox and PC with just one purchase which is great for both being able to play with your friends despite being on potentially a different platform and as an awesome value add you do have to wrestle with the always infuriating Windows Store on the PC side but I'll take it if it means that I get my game on both platforms without paying twice super cool another thing to consider is that if you've already got a PC with a 4k display and 500 bucks burning a hole in your pocket it might be worth upgrading that will likely net you the best 4k gaming experience for your money but the Xbox one X absolutely has a place in the market if you have or will soon obtain a 4k TV HD are for an added bonus and if you want a console to take full advantage of it the Xbox one X will deliver the best frame rates and the highest resolution for consoles and before you scream about it know it's not a replacement for GT X 1080 it's not a replacement for a Vegas 64 these things can run 4k at i popping frame rates that's wonderful but it might be enough to stem the tide of exponent peasant station jokes at least for a while maybe in some corners isn't it I Who am I kidding it's not going to do anything I'm sure there's already a massive war in the comments of this video before we even got to this section so whatever at least the console guys got something cool I'm happy for it's gonna be good and I can be happy for you too because you can get Squarespace what a Segway they have 24/7 live chat and email support you can use their adaptive modules so that it looks great on phones watches proper 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