38 PCWorld MAY 2020NEWS
IMAGE: MICROSOFTMicrosoft’s Xbox Series X
probably puts your gaming PC
to shame: Full specs revealed
Microsoft’s next-gen console is a beast. BY BRAD CHACOSM
icrosoft fully pulled back the
curtain on the hardware
powering the Xbox Series X,
going deep in both a March
16 Xbox blog (go.pcworld.com/xblg) and an
inside look provided to Eurogamer’s Digital
Foundry (go.pcworld.com/dgfn). The
disclosures didn’t divulge much beyond what
we already knew (go.pcworld.com/alln) or
could discern (go.pcworld.com/dcrn) but
they made one thing abundantly clear:Microsoft’s next-gen console will put most
gaming PCs to shame.
We knew that the Xbox Series X would
feature AMD’s kick-ass Ryzen CPU cores, but
now we know it’s the full monty. The console
will come with an 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen
implementation, running at a locked clock
speed. That clock speed will vary depending
on whether game developers want to tap into
all those threads, or decide to stick to the
eight physical cores alone for slightly faster