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Template:mpu Scorpio Engine is a 64-bit octa-core x86 SoC designed by AMD and Microsoft for their Xbox One X. The chip features eight Enhanced Jaguar cores operating at 2.3 GHz and a custom Arctic Islands-based GPU operating at 1.172 GHz. Fabricated on TSMC's 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 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 lightly enhanced 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.

Cache

Main article: Enhanced Jaguar § Cache

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Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 512 KiB 524,288 B 0.5 MiB L1I$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 8x32 KiB 2-way set associative   L1D$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 8x32 KiB 8-way set associative write-back L2$ 4 MiB 4,096 KiB 4,194,304 B 0.00391 GiB     2x2 MiB 16-way set associative write-back

Memory controller

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	Integrated Memory Controller
	Max Type GDDR5-6800 Max Mem 12 GiB Controllers 12 Channels 12 Width 384 bit Max 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 Bandwidth Single 25.33 GiB/s

Graphics

Main article: Arctic Islands microarchitecture

Scorpio Engine features a 40 Radeon compute units (CU) operating at 1,172 MHz each capable of 128 FLOP/cycle for a total of 6.00064 TFLOPS raw peak performance. The GPU is capable of 4.688 Giga primitives/second and 187.5 G bilinear texels/second.

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

• Xbox One X

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Die

• TSMC's 16 nm FF+ process
• 7,000,000,000 transistors
• 359 mm² die size