about every year and a half PC gamers are used to getting a whole new
generation of graphics cards with noticeably better performance that they
can easily slot into their existing system for a quick upgrade console fans
though are usually forced to wait long periods for a new generation of tech for
example it was eight freaking years between the release date of the Xbox 360
and the Xbox one so to alleviate this problem somewhat console makers have
been releasing incremental updates to existing platforms just like the new
Xbox One S from Microsoft with improved performance and functionality Beyond
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refreshes of the same platform usually took the form of adding enhanced
connectivity such as Wi-Fi and some additional storage space but the Xbox
One S has taken a bit of a different approach to console redesign although
there is now a 2 tbte option doubling the capacity of the previous largest
Xbox one model the other improvements are quite a bit more interesting not
only is the Xbox One S 40% smaller than the original Behemoth Microsoft also o
ditched the massive external power brick in favor for an internal power supply
you now only need to use one rather small power cord to plug it into the
wall despite this the 1s remains surprisingly light and easy enough to
move around when you need to so points to Microsoft for that the Standard
Edition comes in a white color scheme with black trim which in my opinion is
pretty slick especially compared to the original Xbox one which some folks
myself included said looked a little drab in the box you'll find an updated
controller which is very similar to the original but with Bluetooth for
connecting to PCS some improved range and a textured grip so it won't go
squirting out of your hand in a tense moment also this new IR Blaster which
can accept inputs for multiple devices so you can control things like your TV
and one of the big selling points here is 4K support which is completely absent
from the original Xbox one but there's a caveat perhaps unsurprisingly this
doesn't mean you can Render games at 4K if you want this you'll have to wait for
yet another xbox update code named project Scorpio due in late 2017 what
the Xbox One S does instead is upscale 1080p games to 4K so the Xbox will play
nicely with your 4K TV in your living room if you have one but do note that
your TV or monitor will need to be HDMI
2.0 compliant for this upscaling to work at all but if you can live without true
4K gaming and are mainly interested in using 4K to watch movies and TV shows
the good news is that the Xbox One S can not only handle 4K streaming from
services like Netflix but also supports 4K Blu-ray discs natively a very nice
feature for home theater enthusiasts who want the superior sound quality of a
physical disc and folks who don't have good enough internet connection to
stream 4K by comparison the Xbox One s's
closest competitor the soon to be released PlayStation 4 Pro only supports
HD Blu-ray the 1s also features HDR or
high dynamic range support which will give you nicer colors and more realistic
contrast if you have a TV that supports it but what's going on inside the
internals are mostly the same as you can see from these tear down photos from our
friends over at iFixit but one very interesting difference is theoc has
undergone a die shrink using a 16 nanometer process as opposed to the 28
present in the original Xbox One this allows it to use less power probably the
reason Microsoft was able to fit the PSU inside the chassis and to be clocked
significantly faster indeed the Xbox One S supports 914 MHz on the GPU 61 more
than the original model and that leads into The $64,000 Question how well does
it game a common Point made by PC Gamers
who isue consoles is that even a mid-range GPU will easily overperform
the latest consoles so we put the Xbox One S up against the moderately priced
AMD radon rx470 as well as the more
premium NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 to see
how close the console can get to PC quality visuals in three different
titles the system we used with our rx470 came in just at about $500 on PC part
picker while our more performance-oriented GTX 1070 system
came in at just a little bit under $1,250 Microsoft has been pushing pretty
hard how the Xbox One S apparently functions very well during intense
sequences in gear of War 4 so let's start with that make sure you have the
Cog wheel on YouTube set to 1080p60 so
that you can see the differences here now to Microsoft's credit the game
remained perfectly playable even during combat situations and the game looked
quite nice overall but it's rather easy to tell here that both our mid-range and
higher-end PCs ran the game a lot more smoothly even on ultra settings our PC's
gpus also enabled slightly nicer looking textures across the board moving on to
Forza Horizon 3 the results were rather similar the rx470 and the GTX 1070 gave
us smoother gameplay as well as better detail on things like bodies of water
and environmental elements such as the sides of these Canyons draw distances
also appear to be quite a bit better on PC although it must be noted that the
problem was not removed entirely just kind of moved back to a hopefully less
focused on area there was also less aliasing noticeable on things like guard
rails and foliage however we did run into some stutter ing issues on PC that
we didn't have to deal with on the Xbox which Microsoft should be addressing
with a patch but nevertheless image quality was a bit better on PC with
smoother gameplay even though we were running things on ultra settings it's
just unfortunate that we had yet another case of a less polished PC version of a
game finally rise of the Tomb Raider this game also looked actually quite
good on the Xbox One S though once again it was a lot less smooth than it was on
either of our PC gpus which were running the game at the very high preset
although the Xbox One S came in a lot closer to matching our PC in the image
quality Department than either of the two previous games there were still some
noticeable differences on things like these vertical sheets of ice Laura Croft
has to climb now moving on unfortunately
the Xbox's 4K output did not want to play nicely with our capture equipment
so we don't have footage for you but what I can tell you is that the
upscaling was quite good in all of our test titles although it's still lagged
behind PC in terms of smoothness of play and image quality and in no way does
this upscaling substitute for actual native 4K rendering our game still looks
pretty darn good without any significant slowdowns from the 1080p mode or
excessive blurriness or any of that stuff so if you happen to have a 4K TV I
definitely recommend enabling this feature and at least trying it out now
this performance section may have come across rather negative to the 1s but put
into perspective itive of price it actually shouldn't there are obvious and
major trade-offs like the upgradability of a PC the versatility of a keyboard
and mouse for input the expandability the option to do other things etc etc
I'm sure you're all well versed in this but despite all of that and despite my
preference definitely being on the PC side of things getting for
300 4K Blu-ray support which is nearly impossible to find on PCS right now and
some actually pretty DEC performance was impressive personally of course I would
choose a PC any day for a huge amount of reasons like the agility of an SSD for
the wide variety of tasks that I perform on a computer at a time to actually
being able to get work done in an optimal setting but what do you choose
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