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Otter on 09 September 2020
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Shaunodon said:
shikamaru317 said:

Hmmm, I’m a bit concerned about how backwards compatibility will work with Xbox One X games. While it has been said that the 4 TFLOP RDNA 2 GPU in Series S is faster than the 6 tflop GCN GPU in Xbox One X, and the Series S CPU and Storage are huge improvements over XB1 X, Series S has both less and slower RAM than Xbox One X. I wonder if Series X can actually play BC games with XB1 X settings.

Well that's already a no, because it can't output at native 4K. Assuming Series X|S uses those same builds for BC, Series S should instead run @1440p, which I guess would cover for that RAM difference?

Are we sure it can't output 4k? Has microsoft stated this? 

"Xbox Series S delivers approximately 3x the GPU performance of Xbox One and was designed to play games at 1440p at 60 frames per second".
The tweet that made the round & this here looks like it was referring to what MS designed its use around, not what its maximum resolution output is. They're probably just trying to not confuse the communication between S and X.

I'm not really sure why a 2020 GPU wouldn't be able to output 4k. Even PS4 Pro can.