In the latest podcast of the YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead update, information about the enhanced version of Xbox Series X|S was shared. In the video, he said that Microsoft is preparing to upgrade the existing Xbox console. Among them, Xbox Series S Refresh will be updated in 2022, Xbox Series X Refresh will be updated in 2023, and AMD’s 6nm process APU will be used.
Moore’s Law Is Dead revealed that Microsoft’s Xbox Series S upgrade is to counter Sony’s PlayStation 5 Slim, which is expected to be launched at the end of 2022. The new Xbox S series consoles are said to adopt higher specifications. The reason why the enhanced version of Xbox Series S was launched so early is that Microsoft believes that Series S users rely more on Xbox Game Pass than Series X
Allegedly, because the company operates the Xbox brand as a SaaS (software as a service) and relies entirely on its Pass sales, they hope that more consumers will join the service. Therefore, Microsoft hopes to provide a better Xbox Series S, which will not only give new users the motivation to upgrade but also cause the price of the existing Xbox Series S to drop to around $189-249, which will promote more Users use the Xbox platform, even if they use it as an auxiliary game console.
According to sources, Microsoft’s new Xbox Series S will be priced below $350, which will enhance its competitiveness with PlayStation 5. The new console can get a good specification upgrade from the latest 6nm AMD APU, which may unlock all its 24 CU RDNA 2 GPUs. It is said that the reason for disabling these cores in the first place was the early 7-nanometer output, but now that the 7-nanometer is mature, and the 6-nanometer is more or less an optimized version of the 7-nanometer, we can see AMD launch faster APU designs, these The design is lock-free and has a higher clock speed.
The existing Xbox S series has 4 TFLOPs of computing power, so the 6-nanometer update may eventually have at least >5 TFLOPs of computing power. At a price of less than US$350, this would be a great game console option and should put pressure on Sony’s PlayStation 5 Slim.
