The specifications for Microsoft‘s upcoming hardware refresh of Xbox One codenamed “Project Scorpio” has been revealed.

Check out the Xbox One Project Scorpio Specs after the break, compared with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Pro:

Xbox One Project Scorpio Specs Revealed 3
Xbox One Project Scorpio Specs Revealed 4
Project Scorpio Xbox One PS4 Pro
CPU Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz Eight custom Jaguar cores clocked at 1.75GHz Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz
GPU 40 customised compute units at 1172MHz 12 GCN compute units at 853MHz (Xbox One S: 914MHz) 36 improved GCN compute units at 911MHz
Memory 12GB GDDR5 8GB DDR3/32MB ESRAM 8GB GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth 326GB/s DDR3: 68GB/s, ESRAM at max 204GB/s (Xbox One S: 219GB/s) 218GB/s
Hard Drive 1TB 2.5-inch 500GB/1TB/2TB 2.5-inch 1TB 2.5-inch
Optical Drive 4K UHD Blu-ray Blu-ray (Xbox One S: 4K UHD) Blu-ray

Project Scorpio is a “higher-spec machine in every sense, down to the optical drive that plays the new UHD Blu-ray format.” comparing to PS4 Pro, according to Digital Foundry.

The official name, price details or a release date wasn’t provided.

Project Scorpio’s CPU performance will be about 30% better than the Xbox One, and will provide improvements across all Xbox One and Xbox 360 backwards compatible games.

Microsoft will officially unveil Project Scorpio in June at E3 2017.

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