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Conina said:

JEMC said:

But Vega is HBM 2, and that would give it a lot more memory bandwidth.

Also, if MSoft is going with Zen, that's a whole new CPU architecture and who knows if they'll carry over the troublesome eSRAM and those extra co-processors they put on the Xbox One APU...

Developing for all the Xbox consoles will be a nightmare for a lot of devs, and that's bad news for XboxOne owners as that's the console that will most likely suffer the most.

eSRAM was only needed as a crutch due to the slow DDR3 RAM. If they switch to GDDR5X or HBM2 RAM, they can probably ditch eSRAM, even for older XBO-games. They have to change the memory-setup for Scorpio anyway, 8 GB unified RAM won't be enough for 4K.

But if they don't use the eSRAM, the performance of the games running on the X1 would be as bad as when the console launched if not worse.

And 8GB can be enough for 4K if they free more memory for the console. The Fury X and 980Ti run out of power before running out of VRAM at 4K... and do we really, really believe that consoles will be able to run the games at 4K next year? Because I doubt it.