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by bhouston 3363 days ago
I suspect this is using the new Ryzen cores from AMD? If so then that by itself is a big performance boost.
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They specifically state it is not.

> "To be clear, then: Project Scorpio doesn't feature Ryzen cores, but the Xbox team are not so concerned about this. "On the CPU side of things, we could still meet our design goals with the custom changes we made," Kevin Gammill points out. "At the end of the day we are still a consumer product. We want to hit the price-points where consumers want to purchase this. It's about balancing the two.""