Xbox Scorpio power isn't just a story of teraflops
Xbox boss says Xbox Scorpio power isn't 'just the number of teraflops that makes it powerful'
Microsoft is running towards the warm arms of 4K with its upcoming Xbox Scorpio console, and even with its 6 TFLOPs of power, an 8-core CPU, and over 320GB/sec of memory bandwidth - Xbox boss Phil Spencer knows it's not just about raw horsepower.
During an interview with Stevivor, Spencer said that the 6 TFLOPs of processing power in the Scorpio is just one piece of the puzzle. He said: "Well, I try not to really talk using the term. It's like a car - you wouldn't describe how fast it goes using only one characteristic. But I guess it's like a teraflop is like horsepower - you'd probably have in your head what 100 horsepower could do, or 200".
Spencer continued: "But it's much more than that - there's other things that dictate how fast the car goes. A transmission. Its weight. It's the same with Scorpio; it's not just the number of teraflops that makes it powerful".
He also talked about the fact that Microsoft had planned the Xbox Scorpio for a few years, and that there's going to be a different type of leap from the Xbox One to the Xbox Scorpio than there was with the Xbox 360 and its jump to HD. Spencer added: "We had to make decisions like 4K - to run games in 4K natively - years ago. We thought it would be like the jump to HD with the Xbox 360. Obviously, it's different - that was from a 4:3 ratio to 16:9 - but it's still the same idea".
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