New Xbox One Update Boosts Console GPU Power

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-xbox-one-update-boosts-console-gpu-power/1100-6420097/

"Microsoft is looking to close the performance gap between the Xbox One and Sony's more powerful PlayStation 4, and is now giving developers access to more GPU bandwidth with the console's latest software development kit.

"June #XboxOne software dev kit gives devs access to more GPU bandwidth. More performance, new tools and flexibility to make games better," said Xbox Xboss Phil Spencer on Twitter. Microsoft had previously made rumblings that it was looking to make this the case as soon as possible."

I was about to post this

And the doubters doubted

Cows are shaking in their hooves.

854p has never been so close...

how many tera flops did it add? 10 or 20?

If true, that would be a fantastic PR campaign.

This needs to be talked about explicitly by Microsoft at E3.

Since there are kinect free bundles now they can gain what 10% didn't they say of resources that were allotted to it.

They're boosting an HD7770 LOLOL good luck bros

How many articles do they really need to make about that 10% kinect reserve being given back. lol Didn't they already give some back? How much is honestly left? Baha.

edit: lel they've already given back 8% so that's what....2% left?

By how much though? Also all the software updates in the world won't close the hardware gap completely. That will always exist.

With the power of Microsoft, pack mules will attain warp speed. Set your phasers to 'Awesome', kids, this thread is gonna be fun!

The XO gets more powerful every time, the PS4 and Wii U not so much.

Did you even read the article? Kinect IS (was) GPU, and this is kinect related.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-microsoft-to-unlock-more-gpu-power-for-xbox-one-developers

What's Phil Spencer become...

None, it's given back some more bandwidth to devs apparently.

why do you think that? upon what evidence did you reach that conclusion?

lmao so you're admitting to commenting without checking out facts? it's not based on what you think.

"Xbox One has a conservative 10 per cent time-sliced reservation on the GPU for system processing. This is used both for the GPGPU processing for Kinect and for the rendering of concurrent system content such as snap mode," Microsoft technical fellow Andrew Goossen told us."

omg that's lulzy

Wake me up when Microsofts next-gen console can run a Call of Duty in 1080p lel

@FastRobby: the gpu is used 10% by kinect. 8% for video 2% for voice.

Well PS4 is still the world's most powerful video game console to have ever been created in the history of video games.

@FastRobby: good on you soldier. good on you.

LOL! While I support both, this was funny.

Post of the day. Made me lol for real.

Srsly, more good work by Spencer and the gang trying to make the best out of Mattrick's mess. They can't magically make the hardware equal, but steps like this are going to at least improve the situation.

@gago-gago: good, I'd like a reason to sit a XB1 next to my PS4, but as it stands now there's no reason for me to do that.

If this is as cut and dry as MS makes it seem, what purpose did it serve to throttle the GPU?

EDIT: Kinect -- so says the article. What a mess.

Kinect(lol) the joke of the industry..lulz

792.9p is almost here people!

plz be excited!

Interesting. I want to see how much power they get out of that GPU then. From what i remember, it is still weaker than the PS4's, but i wonder if they match it close.

Funny thing is, nowadays, that's not saying much.

Even then, you're looking at a Radeon R7 260 (not the X version, regular 260 has exactly the same number of shaders)underclocked at 853mhz (versus the PC's 1000mhz +), and then devs have to effectively use the ESRAM to get around bandwidth limitations.

IDK i have both and I'm glad I do.

@deadline-zero0:

Some people feel stating the truth is just that. I just post facts, so don't be alarmed.

Doesn't matter, there's no point in owning an xbox 1 anymore, Project Beast is a PS4 exclusive so it's over for microsoft basically.

Me too....I am hyped for E3

GPU is the last thing a company should ever cheap on, graphics and hype sell these days. They know they fucked up with their 7770 and their DDR3 set up, so they overclocked the box just to catch up a little, and now they are trying to eek out some resources from Kinect. Microsoft one of the richest companies in the world, put a damn GPU in the next console and quit cutting corner. 750 shaders against 1150 game over.

I see a lot of PS4 enthusiasts talking trash about this like the PS4 is some kind of super computer by comparison. It's absurd. And another thing, if the PS4 had this announcement, you'd crap your skinny jeans.

I think it's pretty obvious that kinect features can be disabled without having to actually physically touch the kinect If anything it gives the developers exactly what they want. Slightly more room to work with

They can only go so far with updates, I guess closing the gap a little is nice

well they can do that, but idk why

lmao I highly doubt that. But even if it was like that , it's worth the 1080p.

This has already been talked about millions of times. If they removed Kinect they could unlock the Hidden 10% Super Secret Sauce Power blah blah blah. So the $399 kinectless Xbone could be more powerful than the $499 Xbone with Kinect?