How Much Better Is The XBox Scorpio?
Microsoft recently gave some reporters from the website Digital Foundry a sneak peek under the hood at XBox Scorpio, the codenamed souped-up version of the XBox One that’s supposed to retail this fall. XBox has sworn up and down that this console will stomp the competition into the dirt tech-wise. Will it be worth a purchase? Here’s what we found out…. The Scorpio’s CPU boasts eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3 GHz, and a GPU crammed with 40 Radeon compute units rolling at 1172 MHz. It can give a performance boost to any existing XBox One game and it will be able to run the compatible 360 games as well. Scorpio has 6 teraflops of processing power and a memory bandwidth of 320 gigs a second. It also has 12 GB of GDDR5 memory and a 1 TB 2.5-inch hard drive, and for the cherry on the sundae, a 4K UHD Blu-ray drive. What the Scorpio won’t do is act nice with your wallet. All this power is projected