That's better but still not good enough.
Not good enough for what?
That's better but still not good enough.
Not good enough for what?
Rimshot.Jeff Rigby BTFO.
Now I really am contemplating trading in my day one console for the S. Fuck!
Quick, someone talk me out of it!!
In theory: Do you guys think, they could have gone even higher with the clockspeed, if they really wanted to?
I can't believe people are seriously contemplating spending a large chunk of money to upgrade to this, I guess it bodes well for Neo (and eventually Scorpio)
Dude. $299 UHD Blu-ray player is a steal, currently.I can't believe people are seriously contemplating spending a large chunk of money to upgrade to this, I guess it bodes well for Neo (and eventually Scorpio)
Somebody's OG will get a boost?1.84
So a 440Gflop difference now, instead of 530Glop.
Free boost is always a welcoming one.
Loving Digital Foundry's videos lately, they put so much work into their articles/videos.
Xbox One S looks great, nice little boost when gaming too.
Somebody's OG will get a boost?
iirc AMD produces the chips for them and Jaguar also used TSMC so not too surprising they are using TSMC. Zen will also been using TSMC.TSMC fabbing is interesting. Guess we can deduce that Neo will likely be made by TSMC as well as the cost of Jaguar + GCN1.x die shrink could be a joint venture between Sony/MS.
MS basically said "don't buy it for a performance increase" which is true. This is a very incidental increase for the vast majority of people. The last thing MS wanted was to say "it's more powerful too!" and everybody rushes to buy it and is disappointed with a 5 fps gain.Remember that time a MS first party dev said the S had extra juice and would be used to make their game look/run better and then another MS exec said that wasn't true and they would be identical and you wouldn't be able to tell that the hardware was any different and then everyone started questioning if Polygon made up some details on top of their interview and other people insisted that Microsoft hadn't muddled their messaging at E3 and now it turns out the S does have extra GPU juice that makes games run better?
I remember that, good times.
This is actually pretty cool though, well played to them for improving performance across the board without causing any problems.
Dude. $299 UHD Blu-ray player is a steal, currently.
I can't believe people are seriously contemplating spending a large chunk of money to upgrade to this, I guess it bodes well for Neo (and eventually Scorpio)
Xbox One moves to my bedroom when Scorpio arrives.$299 for a 4k blu ray is a really good deal
I reckon you'd lose less money upgrading from XB1 to XB1 S, then to Scorpio than you will from XB1 to Scorpio. XB1 isn't gonna be worth jack shit come next year, if you're getting Scorpio eventually it might be worthwhile upgrading now while it's still got some value.
I won't be upgrading though but there's good reasons to do so I feel.
$299 for a 4k blu ray is a really good deal
I reckon you'd lose less money upgrading from XB1 to XB1 S, then to Scorpio than you will from XB1 to Scorpio. XB1 isn't gonna be worth jack shit come next year, if you're getting Scorpio eventually it might be worthwhile upgrading now while it's still got some value.
I won't be upgrading though but there's good reasons to do so I feel.
MS basically said "don't buy it for a performance increase" which is true. This is a very incidental increase for the vast majority of people. The last thing MS wanted was to say "it's more powerful too!" and everybody rushes to buy it and is disappointed with a 5 fps gain.
And the beginning of the end of my console support days has begun.
Way to drive me to go full PC MS/Sony! At least it will save me money in the long run.
I think it was reasonable to temper expectations rather than play up the marginal benefit in performance over the OG hardwareRemember that time a MS first party dev said the S had extra juice and would be used to make their game look/run better and then another MS exec said that wasn't true and they would be identical and you wouldn't be able to tell that the hardware was any different and then everyone started questioning if Polygon made up some details on top of their interview and other people insisted that Microsoft hadn't muddled their messaging at E3 and now it turns out the S does have extra GPU juice that makes games run better?
I remember that, good times.
This is actually pretty cool though, well played to them for improving performance across the board without causing any problems.
MS basically said "don't buy it for a performance increase" which is true. This is a very incidental increase for the vast majority of people. The last thing MS wanted was to say "it's more powerful too!" and everybody rushes to buy it and is disappointed with a 5 fps gain.
Albert Penello said:I know some fans have asked for new audio functionality including bitstream support and we're evaluating that as a possible feature in a future update.
Tech interview with Albert pennello? Ok
Yup. A nice 5-10fps boost in some games.
They needed it for 4K/HDR processing. They just opted to allow the OC to run on non-HDR games as well, because why not?Why bother overclocking anything at all, then?
Why bother overclocking anything at all, then?
Why bother overclocking anything at all, then?
The article linked in the OP said:We also used this opportunity to increase the GPU frequency from 853 MHz to 914 MHz. By making this change, developers creating HDR titles do not have to incur any performance hit. ...
Digital Foundry: In a world where most games use HDR internally anyway before tonemapping, what is the need for extra power?
Albert Penello: The extra performance is needed to render real-time non-HDR versions of the game for GameDVR, streaming and screenshots.
Of course Fallout 4 performs exactly the same, ha. You can't even brute force 30fps out of that thing.
I can't believe people are seriously contemplating spending a large chunk of money to upgrade to this, I guess it bodes well for Neo (and eventually Scorpio)
I put up an entire Reddit thread on it. I'm happy that they're at least listening.Do it! It's a vital part of a UHD Blu Ray player.
so it is a bit faster.. but also a bit noisier..
is the Xbox One OG very noisy? or do people not hear it..?
They literally covered this in the article.
Brute force... lol. Dude, it's a very minuscule power difference between the S and standard Xbox One. Many PCs can run Fallout 4 at 4k/60fps.
It's pretty much silent.
To be honest once you trade in the original console along with a controller or two you're not paying much to upgrade (assuming you go for the 500gb version again).
You could have the most powerful console ever and fallout 4 would still run the same.Ahh, missed that part.
In their testing even locked 30fps games like Rise of the Tomb Raider showed gains in maintaining that 30fps and less tearing. Fallout 4 showed absolutely nothing.
nice... I know my PS4 isn't silent... even though I have heard MANY people claim the PS4 is silent..
nice... I know my PS4 isn't silent... even though I have heard MANY people claim the PS4 is silent..
so it is a bit faster.. but also a bit noisier..
is the Xbox One OG very noisy? or do people not hear it..?
Ahh, missed that part.
In their testing even locked 30fps games like Rise of the Tomb Raider showed gains in maintaining that 30fps and less tearing. Fallout 4 showed absolutely nothing.
For what I want mainly resolution bumps.Not good enough for what?