Xbox Series X | S SSD Performance Unlocked & Xbox GDK Native AMD FSR 2.0 Support Coming 

Remember when we used to get demos of games with a magazine instead of having to subscribe to a service to try them out, I really miss demo discs.

Something that I think about is by both the ps5 and the Xbox series X being able to offload to dedicated decompression blocks, that frees up about 3 cpu cores. So the Xbox for example has essentially the equivalent of 11 cpu cores. As a PC gamer that gives me hope that these consoles can hang in there with PCs.

Hey dude, hope all is well. I noticed when I copy something from my internal drive on my series X to the external, it generally copies over at anywhere from 5 to 7 Gbps. I think they originally stated that the drive would operate at 2 to 3 Gb. So I wondered if they hadn’t enabled direct storage when they released their first external one gigabyte drive. In any case, I was pretty amazed by the speed of copying stuff from one to the other. Now to be able to do this within a game, definitely opens up a lot of incredible doors. Not only with faster or nonexistent loading times, but also streaming. I’ll be happy when we see the first game use all of these technologies in order to squeeze the most out of the system. Hopefully within the next few years that will happen. I know they’ve dabbled a bit with some of them... but I don’t think there’s been any game yet that has truly taken advantage of the hardware. Please let me know if I’m wrong about that. Future looks bright. Especially with the upscaling technology starting to mature. It’s going to allow for some pretty amazing worlds and hopefully we start seeing physics implemented in those worlds and gameplay.

It's so true I've played so many amazing games I never would have tried if it weren't for gamepass. I just started playing guardians of the galaxy and I'm loving it!! Also tunic is really awesome as well. GAMEPASS IS THE BEST SERVICE AROUND.....PERIOD.

All of these technologies are great, but they only add value if devs use them. I'm hoping for some big leaps once all the cross-gen stuff gets thru the pipeline. The biggest one for me is still whether or not any devs are truly using the RT cores built into the silicon on the Series consoles. Supposedly that provides compute power separate from the normal compute cores correct? Its a real bummer when devs have RT modes but it tanks the framerate. Are the cores not working as advertised or are the devs just not using them or using them correctly yet? Thanks!

Both the Xbox Series and PS5 hardware offer features that can offer benefits over any PC architecture for unlike PCs that are designed for a plethora of uses, the new consoles have been created from the ground up to run games. Also, unlike last generation 's low end Jaguar Cpu cores, the current Ryzen cores are far more capable with fantastic potential.

3:10 - You've got a few things wrong here. HW accelerated decompression for the directstorage decompression queue is not handled by the CPU (no current CPUs contain ASICs/FPGAs for this and doing it in software on the CPU wouldn't exactly be "hardware accelerated"). Also DirectStorage's CPU savings do not currently come from decompression, rather they skate around a large amount of overhead involved in traditional file I/O on Windows 4:09 - This is only the beginning. DirectStorage on PC currently lacks GPU accelerated decompression as well as SSD -> GPU DMA, though MS is working with Nvidia/AMD/Intel to get this supported ASAP. Once those are implemented we will see true feature parity across the DirectX ecosystem and hopefully more devs will implement these new technologies in their games 5:02 - There's a struggle to get devs to implement super resolution on console because typically super resolution on console plays a different role than it does on PC. On console it ends up being a "better than standard upscaler" for performance modes rather than the typical "sacrifice a small amount of image quality for large performance gain" you see on PC. Because of this many devs don't bother with it, even if technically they should always be using super resolution if the internal render resolution of a game is below 4K

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Thank you Boxenberger for keeping us up to date on what's going on in the Tech world, because we all know Technology is always changing. My goodness I can't even imagine what we will be in store for as time goes on. Salute Boxenberger and Game On!

Excellent video boxenberger! On point!

Awesome and exciting video brother. I can't wait to see the benefits going forward. ❤️✊

The series x is very powerful you cant tell that because the games that came out or that are optimized so far hasnt been using the real power of the system. But when a game does....man your gonna get blown away amd be like playstation 5 what! Lmao

Awesome video bro

Great video lots of untapped power can't wait to see what devs do with it

I’m still debating on just sticking with the series S I ordered and waiting until the X’s hardware is fully realized by devs, or snagging an X (since they’re available retail price rn) tonight lol

Great video dude! I do wonder when Velocity will be implemented properly, like you mentioned in the video it's been nearly 18 months we have been promised these features and nearly all multi-platform games are still smaller (better compressed) and load quicker on PS5. For example Elden Ring loads you back into the game in half the time (after dying) on PS5 compared to the X. Since Digital Foundry proved the 4 lanes of PCI-E 4.0 in PS5 doesn't really have any benefit in games (yet) over the 2 lanes of PCI-E 4.0 we have in the X/S I can only think it is the GDK letting it down.

Great video bud

So what is a realistic expectation for minimum hardware specs to change? I understand direct ml being a game changer but i would think the hardware would be eventually changed as well. Like no more mechanical hds, etc. My fear is that because of part shortages and console availability, 3rd party games wont implement some of these things in order to keep the last gen consoles/ older pcs relevant. I hope Im wrong.

I am an game pass users but i am tired of hearing xbox got this feature and that feature but when it comes to game they are yet to deliver a proper nxt gen game and it will take them at least nov 2022 to release a proper nxt game till then no matter what feature they got does not matter unless they show a proper game play running on xbox

You sounds Like a real German :-)

None of this matters developers are to lazy to use this

Maybe it'll finally keep up with the "weaker" ps5 🤭🤭🤭

Alter…du klingst so fucking deutsch! 😂 No offense, nen Like kriegste als Entschuldigung 😬

All these Chanel’s that are Xbox fanboys related all heir headline is… this is coming , wait til…. The power unleashed, it makes me laugh non of them talk about a game that Xbox has released that truly made an impact like halo or gears of war did back in 2000. Phill is a marketing tool, people need to realize since phill spencer has been in charge there has not been a single big new ip released, all we hear is miss management, problems with development and cancelation, ahem halo and scalebound, now perfect dark half of their key staff has left and development is in the hands of crystal dynamics it looks like it, the initiative is just a support dev, philly the salesman has only directed Xbox to casual gaming with gamepass, lowers the of quality games and just spangled loads of money to buy publishers!! Please wake the f up and see this clown is destroying the Xbox brand!

Great video. And DirectStorage on PC is not YET using GPU decompression. That is coming in the near future.