Xbox One is built
for the future.
The Xbox One is a powerful piece of hardware with 8GB RAM, 64-bit processors and plenty more muscle. But as time passes this hardware will age. As Xbox One Director of development Boyd Multerer pointed out, "You'll still have a limited number of transistors in your house; in your box."
Not much is known about the Xbox One GPU, but a Microsoft representative has told IGN "AMD is our primary partner for the custom silicon that makes up our GPU/CPU SOC that is the heart of Xbox One." [Source: IGN interview with Microsoft]
But the Xbox One is built to communicate with servers in the cloud to increase the computational potential of the system. Boyd continued "[As a developer] I can start doing things like shifting latency insensitive things to the cloud. You may have a limited number of transistors in your house, but you have an unlimited number of transistors in the cloud"
As bandwidth improves, there is potential for actual game computations to be off-loaded to servers in the cloud, essentially allowing the Xbox One to become more powerful over time as more and more transistors are connected to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.
| Feature | Xbox One |
|---|---|
| Optical Drive | Blu-Ray/DVD |
| Game DVR | Yes, Upload Studio |
| HDCP Encryption | No for games |
| RAM |
8GB DDR3 + 32MB eSRAM embedded memory 8GB Flash Memory
|
| CPU | 8 Core AMD custom CPU Frequency: 1.75 GHz |
| GPU Clock Speed | 853 MHz GPU [n] |
| Storage | 500 GB Hard Drive, External Hard Drive [n] |
| Second Screen | SmartGlass App on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 8 |
| Cloud Storage | Yes, Free Unlimited |
| Mandatory Game Installs | Yes |
| Required Internet Connection | After Day One patch, No |
| Used Game Fee | No |
| Backwards Compatibility | None |
| Cross Game Chat | Skype, Party Chat [n] |
| Motion Control | Kinect 2 |
| Voice Commands | Yes |
| Subscription Service | Xbox Live |
| USB | USB 3.0 |
| Live Streaming | Yes, With Twitch.TV |
| Reputation Preservation | Achievements will be ported |
| Web Connection | Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi |
| Wifi Direct | Built-in (A/B/G/N dual-band at 2.4ghz and 5ghz) |
A/V Hookups
| HDMI input and output (4K support) |
API
| DirectX 11.2 |
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