The good folks over at Digital Foundry have been to Microsoft and have the beastly Project Scorpio specs revealed to the world. My goodness is this machine powerful. Details after the break.
This is the year that Sony will lose its hardware superiority in this current generation of consoles. They will have to remove their “Most Powerful console” label for the PS4 Pro. All because Project Scorpio specs have been revealed by Digital Foundry. And boy is this machine an all-destroying beast. According to Richard Leadbetter of Digital foundry, it seems Microsoft has not only hit their 6 TFLOPS target but gone above and beyond when it comes to the specs of this console. This machine will be a True 4K gaming machine with room to spare. Here are the official specs below compared to the PS4 Pro and Xbox One.
Project Scorpio VS PS4 Pro
| Project Scorpio | Xbox One | PS4 Pro | |
| CPU | Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz | Eight custom Jaguar cores clocked at 1.75GHz | Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz |
| GPU | 40 customised compute units at 1172MHz | 12 GCN compute units at 853MHz (Xbox One S: 914MHz) | 36 improved GCN compute units at 911MHz |
| Memory | 12GB GDDR5 | 8GB DDR3/32MB ESRAM | 8GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 326GB/s | DDR3: 68GB/s, ESRAM at max 204GB/s (Xbox One S: 219GB/s) | 218GB/s |
| Hard Drive | 1TB 2.5-inch | 500GB/1TB/2TB 2.5-inch | 1TB 2.5-inch |
| Optical Drive | 4K UHD Blu-ray | Blu-ray (Xbox One S: 4K UHD) | Blu-ray |
I currently have a PS4 Pro and I’ll admit, I was one of the naysayers at the beginning of this new mid-cycle upgrade ‘thing’ in consoles. But after spending some significant time with my PS4 Pro I’m thoroughly impressed. With that in mind, the Scorpio will blow the Pro out of the water. It’s a really impressive machine just looking at the specs. But in the end, it will boil down to the games. According to Digital Foundry, Turn 10 Studios was able to port Forza 6 engine to the Scorpio in just 2 days and the damn thing just worked out of the box at full native 4K 60FPS with only a GPU usage of 66%. That a lot of headroom left over for even more visual improvements.
Currently, there’s no price, no release date. Perhaps Microsoft will out those details at this year’s E3. All in all, it’s a very impressive machine and I can’t wait to hear more from it. I guess towards the end of the year, my Xbox One will be sold and replaced by a Scorpio. And that’s coming from someone who hates the idea of a mid-cycle console.
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