Xbox one s uses an apu made at 16nm by tsmc with various improvements

Xbox One S is the new slim review of the current Microsoft game console, the new model seems to be identical to the original except for the obvious decrease in size of 40% to be a much more compact solution. We now know that the miniaturization of your APU has been essential in order to offer a much more compact product.

Xbox One S is not only smaller, its APU has been improved in several key aspects

The new Xbox One S sees its APU built in TSMC's 16nm FinFET process, a significant step up from the 28nm used in the original model and Sony's PS4. This miniaturization in the manufacturing process of its chip has been essential to reduce energy consumption and the heat generated, thereby achieving the possibility of designing a much more compact console than the original Xbox One.

Improvements to the Xbox One S APU are not limited to a drop in nm, Microsoft has added some additional components such as hardware HEVC decoding, hardware codecs for Blu-ray UHD and HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 interfaces. Microsoft has also taken advantage to improve performance in video games, the GPU clock frequency has gone from 853 MHz to 914 MHz to give a total power of 1.4 TFLOPs, a difference that is not very large compared to the 1.31 TFLOPs of the Xbox One original but the first results have already been seen.

The ESRAM memory built into the die of the processor has also improved its performance to yield a bandwidth of 219 GB / s, a figure that is 7.1% higher than the 204 GB / s of the original Xbox One.

The new Xbox One S may be a significant breath of fresh air for Microsoft before the arrival of Scorpio, which will be much more powerful thanks to its Zen and Vega-based APU.

Source: techpowerup