Microsoft teases next-gen Xbox ‘Project Scarlett’ console
Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 9:48PM
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Microsoft is finally talking about its next-generation Xbox and what we can expect from it. For now, we know this next-gen console as Project Scarlett. It promises to be a console that’s four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. It’ll use a custom-designed processor based on AMD’s Zen 2 and Radeon RDNA architecture. And with Microsoft opting to use fast GDDR6 RAM, it claims this will “user in resolution and framerates we’ve never seen before.”

The Project Scarlett console will support 8K gaming, ray-tracing, variable refresh rate support, and framerates of up to 120 frames per second. The company will use the SSD as virtual RAM, which should boost performance by 40 times over what the current generation offers. This means loading times should be a thing of the past. All the specs are also meant to provide a more immersive experience than before. Microsoft didn’t talk about what the console will look like, but we know it will launch alongside Halo Infinite in the latter part of 2020.

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