In addition to the smaller Xbox One S, Microsoft also unveiled its new Project Scorpio, the next-gen console which will pack some impressive performance and come in Q4 2017.

Built and designed for VR-gaming, the next-gen console, known as Project Scorpio will be based on AMD hardware, which was confirmed by AMD just a few hours after Microsoft unveil. It will pack some impressive compute performance of over 6 TFLOPs and offer 4K video output at 60fps, VR-support and more.

According to Microsoft, Project Scorpio will be using an 8-core AMD CPU and offer over 320GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is pretty much in line with what you get from Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080. The promise of 6 TFLOPs of compute performance is certainly impressive considering that currently Playstation 4 peaks at 1.84 TFLOPs while Xbox One hit about 1.23 TFLOPs.

This means that the Project Scorpio might be based on AMD's Zen CPU architecture paired up with either Vega, or probably Polaris GPU architecture. While AMD has confirmed that the Project Scorpio will be based on a semi-custom SoC, it did not give any hints on its actual specifications.

Whatever kind of SoC ends up in Project Scorpio, this is certainly a big win for AMD as while it already scored a big win in current-gen consoles, it appears it will be making a next-gen console as well.

Hopefully we will hear more about Project Scorpio by the end of this year.



Source: via Kotaku.com.