Details regarding Microsoft's upcoming super console, the Xbox Scorpio have been hard to come by ever since the tech giant announced their new platform during E3 of last year. Right now, all we've known are some basic specs, like the platform's eight-core CPU, memory bandwidth (320GB/s), and 6 teraflops of GPU.
But now, we actually have more details courtesy of a leaked PDF coming from a Microsoft developer website.
New leaks for the Xbox Scorpio
Extremetech has provided the full details on the PDF, which doesn't appear to be publicly available as of the moment. According to the file, the Xbox Scorpio will ditch the ESRAM cache that the Xbox One relied on to render higher performance and acceptable frame rates.
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are much similar, architecturally speaking than any previous pair of gaming consoles. However, ESRAM was a major feature that set them apart; the Xbox One uses a 32MB ESRAM cache that is divided into four 8MB blocks, which supplements its DDR3 memory interface, while the Sony PS4 has a combined 8GB GDDR5 memory pool.
Other confirmations about the Scorpio
As said on the PDF, Project Scorpio is confirmed to feature 6TFLOP of GPU, with a total compute power rated as 4.5x the capability of Xbox One, including 4x more L2 cache. So far, there is nothing terribly informative about these specifications, since they say nothing about whether Scorpio is based on AMD's Polaris or its Vega family.
Given that the console's memory type and total RAM have not yet been announced, this could still potentially go either way. There has been speculation that the Xbox Scorpio could use AMD's latest Ryzen architecture rather than the older Jaguar part, but according to Yahoo!, it is less likely based on some comments in the PDF.
Things are looking bright
The paper also makes reference to how developers may want to spend their new graphics firepower, noting some features like increased resolution and faster overall performance. With all things said, and whether the leak is proven true or now, people are now more excited than they ever were about the Xbox Scorpio.
