when we first saw the specs of the new xbox one x we were intrigued to say the
least there's 40 compute units it has native support for 4k 60fps gameplay are
there asterisks next to these claims are gonna leave us disappointed or are we
finally looking at a console that achieves both affordability and a pc
like gameplay experience speaking of not being disappointed
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so even though it's being touted as the most powerful console ever microsoft's
latest keeps the familiar xbox one branding rather than adopting a new name
that would immediately indicate an all-new experience but this makes sense
on some level although the xbox one x is graphically more capable than last
year's xbox one s the changes to its internal architecture are evolutionary
rather than revolutionary you'll be plugging in the same ports and playing
the same games on the same controller just with prettier pixels so if you
think about it buying a console has become more like a pc than ever before
there are now two models of the playstation 4 and 3 of the xbox one
whose primary differences are form factor power efficiency and graphics
card configuration just like the gaming computer shelf at a best buy or
something like that that is not to say though that the specification
differences between the xbox one x and its predecessors aren't significant on a
sheet of paper to some people they're just higher numbers the higher clocked
jaguar CPU is literally just that but
looking closely at the graphics configuration of this new custom chip
reveals that its closest desktop pc equivalent is probably a Radeon rx 580
which is a very capable card so in
practical terms they make possible the big selling point for the console it's
support for 4k gaming at 60fps natively
understandably microsoft hasn't been shy about this hardware investment marketing
the xbox one x as a premium experience
now of course that doesn't mean you can expect to find a water cooling system
and an SSD in it but it is equipped with a beefier vapor chamber heatsink than we
saw in the xbox one s that kept the hottest part of the system at a
reasonable 70 degrees under load without getting obnoxiously loud and there's a
one terabyte hard drive that is advertised as up to 50 percent faster a
benefit not just to game load times but also when the system needs to stream in
higher resolution textures as you wander around open environments feature wise
the one x is state of the art it comes with out of the box support for both
10 high dynamic range redundant i know you can learn more about it up here
but basically it amounts to deeper blacks brighter whites and more vibrant
colors on supported displays along with that there's also dolby atmos a surround
sound technology that encodes audio as objects instead of individual channels
for greater positional accuracy and realism with the proper home theater
hardware atmos is a game changer dolby atmos headphone is also supported with a
15 add-on purchase but the gears 4 dolby
headphone experience and even some canned demos they were pretty
underwhelming so i would hold off on this one at least for now now let's look
at the visual experience we gathered our competitors and settled on a test suite
of games that showed off the xbox one x's different ways of rendering 4k
content let's kick things off with forza 7. this was one of the titles microsoft
demoed prior to the one x's launch to show off its native 4k60 capabilities
unsurprisingly the xbox one x absolutely
shined in this game not only did it give us much better detail than the upscaled
4k from the 1s it was even a little bit better than our 500 pc which was running
the game at 4k on the recommended preset
at around 45 FPS anti-aliasing helped
our pc a little bit but the xbox one x showed off details we couldn't quite
make out on the pc even the controls on the dashboard inside our car and it did
so while running the game noticeably more smooth
so yeah score one for the one x here though of course this is a microsoft
exclusive game so the ps4 pro didn't actually get a crack at it so let's move
right along to shadow of war another native 4k title but one that only runs
at 30 FPS on the one x this game looked more or less equally nice on the ps4 pro
and the xbox one x both in terms of frame rate and texture quality and the
one s again was noticeably less sharp due to the lack of native 4k support the
system that gave us the worst overall experience at 4k was our
well our 500 pc which had to turn down
to the lowest preset to be playable but obviously we are aware that that could
be due to video memory limitation and should be noted that at 1080p and ultra
details it kept pace much better now let's look at assassin's creed origins
which uses checkerboard rendering at 4k
on both of our flagship consoles this ended up being a very similar story to
shadow of war with the ps4 pro and xbox one x looking nearly identical the 1s a
little bit less sharp and the 500 pc was only playable on the low preset until we
turned down the resolution but you should note that on pc there's a lot of
performance issues due to some funky drm stuff that's going on a weird aside here
is that although ubisoft called assassin's creed on the xbox one x the
definitive version of the game we were very hard-pressed to notice anything
that made it stand out but microsoft says it isn't all about 4k
and they claim that the more powerful processor in the xbox one x will like
we've been doing on our pc during our testing allow the use of higher quality
assets at 1080p so we turned down the resolution of both our one x and our pc
to 1080p then cranked our pc presets up to ultra quality on each game and to the
xbox's credit all three games looked nearly identical with the small caveat
that we needed to enable the favor quality setting on shadow of war this
customizability is a fantastic trend that we support and we'd like to see
continue but if you're going to be gaming on a 1080p display for the
foreseeable future this doesn't necessarily give the most powerful
console ever an unequivocal recommendation that's because for us if
we're going to have a similar gaming experience anyways we'd rather go for a
more versatile pc that isn't restricted to one specific console ecosystem with
that said the 4k experience is a bit of
a different story if you have to build a pc from the ground up for 500
especially if you're including Windows in that price the xbox one x craps all
over the 4k gaming experience you'd be having if you want to buy brand new
hardware from a store with a warranty and all of that and not do the whole
scrapyard wars thing at this point in time but if you're comparing to a ps4
pro which is a hundred bucks cheaper and has the same support for technologies
like HDR and dolby atmos bitstream pass-through along with very similar
gaming performance in a fair amount of titles
while that hundred dollar premium gets you the awesome uhd 4k blu-ray playback
if you're gonna use that and most importantly for the majority of people
more powerful hardware that should deliver a higher percentage of games at
crispy 4k60. there's also the awesome benefit of xbox play anywhere which
allows you to play your games on both xbox and pc with just one purchase which
is great for both being able to play with your friends despite being on
potentially a different platform and as an awesome value-add you do have to
wrestle with the always infuriating Windows store on the pc side but i'll
take it if it means that i get my game on both platforms without paying twice
super cool another thing to consider is that if you've already got a pc with a
4k display and 500 bucks burning a hole in your pocket it might be worth
upgrading that will likely net you the best 4k gaming experience for your money
but the xbox one x absolutely has a place in the market if you have or will
soon obtain a 4k tv HDR for an added
bonus and if you want a console to take full advantage of it the xbox one x
absolutely will deliver the best frame rates and the highest resolution for
consoles and before you scream about it no it's not a replacement for a gtx 1080
it's not a replacement for vega 64. these things can run 4k at eye popping
frame rates that's wonderful but it might be enough to stem the tide of
x-bowed and peasant station jokes at least for a while
maybe in some corners of the united who am i kidding it's not gonna do anything
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