Editing microsoft/scorpio engine

{{microsoft title|Scorpio Engine}}
{{mpu
|name=Scorpio Engine
|image=scorpio engine (front).png
|designer=AMD
|designer 2=Microsoft
|manufacturer=TSMC
|model number=Scorpio Engine
|market=Console
|first announced=June 11, 2017
|first launched=November 7, 2017
|frequency=2,300 MHz
|clock multiplier=23
|isa=x86-64
|isa family=x86
|microarch=Enhanced Jaguar
|microarch 2=Arctic Islands
|core name=Enhanced Jaguar
|process=16 nm
|transistors=7,000,000,000
|technology=CMOS
|die area=359 mm²
|word size=64 bit
|core count=8
|thread count=8
|max cpus=1
|max memory=12 GiB
}}
'''Scorpio Engine''' is a {{arch|64}} [[octa-core]] [[x86]] SoC designed by [[AMD]] and [[Microsoft]] for their ''Xbox One X''. The chip features eight {{amd|Enhanced Jaguar|l=arch}} cores operating at 2.3 GHz and a custom {{amd|Arctic Islands|l=arch}}-based GPU operating at 1.172 GHz. Fabricated on [[TSMC]]'s [[16 nm process|16FF+]], this chip supports 12 (24 for Dev) GiB of 12-channel GDDR5-6800 memory.

== Overview ==
Like the ''PlayStation 4'' and the ''Xbox One'', the ''Xbox One X'' is also powered by a chip based on [[AMD]]'s architectures. The ''Scorpio Engine'' most important goal was achieving true [[4K]] gaming performance according to John Sell, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft who presented the chip at [[Hot Chips]] 29. Fabricated on a [[TSMC]]'s [[16 nm process]], the chip contains 7 billion transistors on a 359 mm² die, similar in amount to [[Nvidia]]'s {{nvidia|GTX 1080}} and almost the same size as the original Xbox One SoC (which was 363 mm² on a [[28 nm process]]).

Like the original Xbox One SoC, the chip feature eight Jaguar cores. The cores have been {{amd|Enhanced Jaguar|lightly enhanced|l=arch}} and operate at a higher frequency of 2.3 GHz, but are otherwise mostly identical. It's worth pointing out that [[AMD]] has not commercialized a 16 nm Jaguar processor outside of this chip.

== Cache ==
{{main|amd/microarchitectures/enhanced_jaguar#Memory_Hierarchy|l1=Enhanced Jaguar § Cache}}
{{cache size
|l1 cache=512 KiB
|l1i cache=256 KiB
|l1i break=8x32 KiB
|l1i desc=2-way set associative
|l1d cache=256 KiB
|l1d break=8x32 KiB
|l1d desc=8-way set associative
|l1d policy=write-back
|l2 cache=4 MiB
|l2 break=2x2 MiB
|l2 desc=16-way set associative
|l2 policy=write-back
}}

== Memory controller ==
{{memory controller
|type=GDDR5-6800
|max mem=12 GiB
|controllers=12
|channels=12
|width=384 bit
|max bandwidth=304 GiB/s
|bandwidth schan=25.33 GiB/s
}}

== Graphics ==
{{main|amd/microarchitectures/arctic islands|l1=Arctic Islands microarchitecture}}
Scorpio Engine feature 40 Compute Units (CUs) based on {{amd|Arctic Islands|l=arch}} (Similar to Polaris, Radeon RX 4xx). This is triple the amount over the original Scorpio Engine. The Compute Units operate at 1,172 MHz, each with 64 32-bit [[floating point]] [[multiply-accumulate]] units. At 1.172 GHz with 128 FLOP/cycle this chip can deliver 6.00064 TFLOPS raw peak performance - over four times previous chips (which were 1.3 and 1.4 TFLOPS). The performance of texture processing has also been increase to 187.5 G bilinear texels/second. Additionally, in each of the four shader arrays, there is one geometry engine for the purpose of doing fixed geometry processing, this is twice previous chip which is capable of 4.688 Giga primitives/second.  

Similar to previous chips, Scorpio has 2 command processors (i.e., microcontrollers) that handle graphic and compute tasks however they are said to handle more parallel compute tasks than previous chip in order to increase performance. The number of ACEs (Asynchronous Compute Engine) on Scorpio has doubled to 4 in order to increase the parallelism possible. It's worth pointing out that since the Scorpio Engine is based on {{amd|Arctic Islands|l=arch}}, there are also two additional schedulers.

<table class="wikitable">
<tr><th colspan="2">Scorpio Engine GPU</th></tr>
<tr><th>Unified shaders</th><td>2560 (64 × 40 CUs)</td></tr>
<tr><th>[[raster operation units|ROPs]]</th><td>32</td></tr>
<tr><th>[[texture mapping units |TMUs]]</th><td>160</td></tr>
<tr><th>Peak Performance</th><td> ~6 TFLOPS (6,000,640,000,000 [[FLOPS]])</td></tr>
</table>

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" | Hardware Accelerated Video Capabilities
|-
! Codec !! Encode !! Decode
|-
| [[MPEG-4 AVC]] (H.264) || {{tchk|yes|4K @ 60 Hz}} || {{tchk|no}}
|-
| [[HEVC]] (H.265) || {{tchk|yes|4K @ 60 Hz}} || {{tchk|yes|4K @ 60 Hz}}
|-
| [[VP9]] || {{tchk|yes|4K @ 60 Hz}} || {{tchk|no}}
|}

=== RBs and Memory Subsystem ===
The render back-end has also been enhanced. The render back-end consist of eight ''Render Boxes'' (RB) color/depth engines, each with 256 KiB graphics L2 cache for a total of 2 MiB. Each pair of Render Boxes is wired to one ''Memory Controller Cluster'' (MCC). Each MMC consists of two dedicated memory controllers and two more that are shared between two pairs of MCCs. In total there are four clusters with each having two dedicated controllers and two more pair (4 controllers) of channels shared between a pair of MCCs for a total of 12 channels.

== Display ==
Scorpio Engine supports [[DP]] 1.2a, HDMI 2.0b, HDCP 2.2, and two-stream MST. 4K, 64-bit, 3-surface resize and blending is supported.

== Audio ==
8 custom processors.

== Utilizing devices ==
* [[used by::Xbox One X]]

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== Die ==
* TSMC's [[16 nm process|16 nm FF+ process]]
* 7,000,000,000 transistors
* 359 mm² die size


:[[File:scorpio engine die shot.png|750px]]


: [[File:scorpio engine die shot (annotated).png|750px]]

=== Yield & redundancy ===
In normal microprocessors such as typical [[CPU]]s and [[GPU]]s, when a core in the case of a CPU or a shader unit in the case of a GPU has a defect, it's common for manufacturers to disable those affected cores/shaders (typically in a symmetrical way) and [[binning|sell those chips as lower end models]]. Since the Scorpio Engine is only found in the single-specification ''Xbox One X'' machine, [[binning]] is not possible. In an attempt to improve yield the Scorpio Engine actually incorporates 11 Compute Units (CUs) in each shader array for redundancy, 10 of them are operational while the 11th one is used as a spare. With 4 shader arrays, there are 4 spares and 40 enabled CUs. If one or a few compute units are faulty but the rest of the chip is fully functional, the spare CUs can be enabled to compensate for this.
base frequency	2,300 MHz (2.3 GHz, 2,300,000 kHz) +
core count	8 +
core name	Enhanced Jaguar +
designer	AMD + and Microsoft +
die area	359 mm² (0.556 in², 3.59 cm², 359,000,000 µm²) +
first announced	June 11, 2017 +
first launched	November 7, 2017 +
full page name	microsoft/scorpio engine +
has ecc memory support	false +
instance of	microprocessor +
is multi-chip package	false +
isa	x86-64 +
isa family	x86 +
l1$ size	512 KiB (524,288 B, 0.5 MiB) +
l1d$ description	8-way set associative +
l1d$ size	256 KiB (262,144 B, 0.25 MiB) +
l1i$ description	2-way set associative +
l1i$ size	256 KiB (262,144 B, 0.25 MiB) +
l2$ description	16-way set associative +
l2$ size	4 MiB (4,096 KiB, 4,194,304 B, 0.00391 GiB) +
ldate	November 7, 2017 +
main image	+
manufacturer	TSMC +
market segment	Console +
max cpu count	1 +
max memory	24,576 MiB (25,165,824 KiB, 25,769,803,776 B, 24 GiB, 0.0234 TiB) +
max memory bandwidth	304 GiB/s (311,296 MiB/s, 326.418 GB/s, 326,417.514 MB/s, 0.297 TiB/s, 0.326 TB/s) +
max memory channels	12 +
microarchitecture	Enhanced Jaguar + and Polaris +
model number	Scorpio Engine +
name	Scorpio Engine +
package	BGA-2409 +
package contacts	2,409 +
package length	50 mm (5 cm, 1.969 in) +
package pitch	0.8 mm (0.0315 in) +
package type	FC-OBGA +
package width	50 mm (5 cm, 1.969 in) +
process	16 nm (0.016 μm, 1.6e-5 mm) +
smp max ways	1 +
supported memory type	GDDR5-6800 +
technology	CMOS +
thread count	8 +
transistor count	7,000,000,000 +
used by	Xbox One X +
word size	64 bit (8 octets, 16 nibbles) +