Earlier last month Microsoft revealed that the Xbox One GPU had been increased from 800 MHz to 853 Mhz. Now, they’ve announced that the console’s CPU has seen a similar increase from 1.6 GHz to 1.75 GHz.
Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of marketing and strategy for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, shared the news at the Citi Global Technology Conference. He also offered an update to the Xbox One’s progress and manufacturing saying it’s Microsoft’s “biggest launch by a wide margin,” and that the company has “built more [systems] than we’ve ever built for an Xbox launch.”
We recently just went into full production, so we’re now producing en masse Xbox One consoles. We’ve had real good progress on the system. In fact, we just updated the CPU performance to 1.75 GHz on top of the graphics performance improvement, so the system is really going to shine [and] the games look pretty incredible.
It’s been said that the PS4 is more powerful than the XBO from a pure hardware perspective, I’m curious to find out how much this speed boost will aid developers [if at all]. Leave your own thoughts below in the comments!
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