Xbox Series X: Specs, Price, Everything We Know

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All the latest facts about Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X.

The Xbox Series X is set to release this Holiday season, bringing Microsoft’s flagship console series into a new generation. It follows the original launch of the Xbox One in 2013 and the release of the Xbox One S and Xbox One X upgrades in 2016 and 2017, respectively. And as we inch closer to that deadline, we’re learning more and more about the Xbox Series. In fact, there's enough information to put the Xbox Series X up against the PS5 in a face-off.

Microsoft has already officially unveiled the Xbox Series X's full specs, with a commitment towards 4K, 60+ fps frame rates and ray-tracing. However, certain details like price are still unknown. That’s why we’re collecting all the information we know, confirmed and rumored, into one convenient page for our readers to keep up to date on the launch of the Xbox Series X.

Xbox Series X Cheat Sheet: Key details at a glance

Release Date
Holiday 2020
Price
TBD, expected around $499
Key features
4K at 60 Fps, 8K, 120 Fps, ray-tracing, fast load times
Key games
Halo Infinite, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Full Xbox One backwards compatibility
CPU
Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU
RAM
16GB GDDR6 memory
GPU
12 teraflop RDNA 2 GPU
Storage
1TB NVMe SSD, proprietary SSD expansion slot

Xbox Series X Release Date

While we don’t have a specific release date yet, Xbox has confirmed both on social media and on its blog that it is planning to release the Xbox Series X this holiday season.

Fears over coronavirus had analysts suspecting delays earlier this March, but on March 24th, Microsoft announced in an interview with CNBC that its Chinese supply chains are "getting back on track." CEO Satya Nadella did add the caveat that "we’ll have to check back on it" when discussing the release date, but seemed mostly confident it, ending his comments by saying "we feel good about where we are."

Previous Xbox consoles have tended to launch in November, so look out for the Xbox Series X around that time as well.

Xbox Series X Specs

CPU
AMD Zen 2 custom CPU: 8 cores, 16 threads @ 3.8 GHz
GPU
AMD RDNA 2 custom GPU: 12 Teraflops, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz
Die Size
360.45mm²
RAM
16GB GDDR6
RAM Bandwidth
10GB @ 560 GBps, 6GB @ 336 GBps
Storage
1TB NVMe SSD
Expandable Storage
1TB expansion card, external USB 3.2 hard drive support
Optical Drive
4K Blu-ray

Earlier this March, Microsoft announced the full specs for the Xbox Series X, revealing a commitment to bringing PC style power to the living room.

The Xbox Series X will use an AMD Zen 2 custom CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads @ 3.8 GHz, a 12 teraflops AMD RDNA 2 custom GPU with 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz, 16GB of GDDR6 RAM running at a bandwidth of 10GB @560 GBps and 6GB @ 336 GBps, a 1 TB NVMe SSD with a slot for an optional proprietary 1TB SSD expansion card, and a 4K Blu-ray optical drive. It will also feature USB ports for accessories and external hard drives.

Most of these specs are comparable to the PS5 specs Sony announced shortly after Xbox’s post, though the Xbox Series X features a larger SSD than the PS5’s 825 GB one, a slightly more powerful CPU at 3.8GHz vs 3.5 GHz, and a generally more powerful GPU than the PS5’s 10.3 teraflop, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz card.

According to Digital Foundry’s hands-on time with the Xbox Series X, all these specs come together to make it more than “twice as powerful as Xbox One X,” with it being able to run four Xbox One S game sessions simultaneously on the same chip.
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