While it did not impress the gaming community at E3 show and was pretty much pushed into oblivion by Sony and its Playstation 4 press conference, Microsoft had no chance but try and pull a fast one at E3 by swapping "alleged" Xbox One experience with a full PC system based on quite impressive hardware.

Microsoft has set up a couple of gaming stations that were allegedly powered by Xbox One where gamers could try out some Xbox One games and the new Xbox One controller but apparently, the games were actually run on Intel LGA 2011 system. According to early details, the system was powered with at least Core i7-3820 CPU and to make things worst, a Geforce GTX 700 series GPU. With such impressive hardware specs it was no wonder that it could provide a "rich and smooth" gaming experience.

In case you missed it earlier, the Xbox One system is actually based on AMD's custom Jaguar based architecture with eight 64-bit x86 CPU cores and GPU with 768 GCN stream processors paired up with a unified quad-channel DDR3-2133 memory interface with 8GB of memory. While these specs sound impressive, we guess that they are nowhere near the Core i7-3820 system with Geforce GTX 700 series dedicated GPU combination.

While it almost got away with it, we are quite sure that this "issue" is not a priority on Microsoft's list as it is currently being shattered by Playstation 4 that simply does not have that much issues when compared to the Xbox One and is even cheaper.





Source: Techpowerup.com.