A NEW(ISH) CONTROLLER
The new Xbox Wireless Controller included with the Xbox Series X isn’t much
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grips, and matte plastic shell. Now a Capture button sits between the Menu and
View buttons, below the glowing Guide button in the gamepad’s center. This
lets you take screenshots and video clips with just a button press, as on the
PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch.
The direction pad is also new. It now has an octagonal direction plate with stark
indentations replacing the plus-shaped pad on the previous controller. Aside
from these changes, the gamepad has a USB-C port for wired use and charging
(if you use rechargeable batteries; the controller uses two standard AAs) instead
of micro USB, but that’s about it. This is pretty much the same controller as
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THE POWER WITHIN
Inside the console is a Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU that features eight cores clocked
at 3.87GHz. There’s also a custom RDNA 2 GPU that contains 52 cores at
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system also features 16GB of GDDR6 RAM and, perhaps most notably, a 1TB
solid state drive (SSD). The Xbox Series X can output video at up to 4K
resolution, with support for high dynamic range (HDR) games and video,
including Dolby Vision.