It is not an upgrade. It is a cheapened model to sell at lower price.
- Codename "Ellewood" is the (already revealed) black 1TB Xbox Series S.
- Codename "Brooklin" will be an all digital Xbox Series X with 2TB.
"Same great price $499" according to Microsoft.
This might be all Microsoft has for Xbox this gen. A $499 Xbox Series X with 2TB without a disc-drive. And a new controller.
Meanwhile Sony is working on a more powerful PS5 Pro. As it looks like right now, Sony will have a new PS5 model later this year for $399. It's all digital but you can upgrade it with a modular disc-drive. And it's possible that the more powerful PS5 Pro will launch in October 2024 for $499. The same price as the Xbox Series X mid-gen refresh.
This would be hilarious tbh.
The most powerful console in the world, the PS5 Pro, versus the same old Xbox Series X and the weak Xbox Series S potato.
Tsmc process node, nm = nanometers, it's a (mostly inaccurate these days) measure of how small a given semiconductor manufacturing process can make their transistors. Ps5/xsx launched with their cpu/gpu on 7nm, ps5 revisions have gone down to 6nm. Each step down may give chip size decreases, power efficiency savings, or speed/throughput increases. For 7nm->6nm i think the ps5 saved about 20-30 watts of power while running at load, which allowed sony to reduce the size of the heatsink.
It's not better though is it just smaller & probably costs less to manufactureNanometer. It’s a smaller system chipset
PlayStation 5 Refresh Boasts New 6nm AMD Oberon Plus SoC
Oberon gets the TSMC die-shrink treatment.www.tomshardware.com
I got my ps5 October or November last year so mines probably that model just not sure if it's a good thing or not
7nm->6nm is not much of an improvement but ->5nm is a big improvement. It allows chips to run faster and cooler. For example 16 core Zen3 AMD cpus were on 7nm and had a boost clock of 4.9ghz. But 16 core Zen4 cpus are on 5nm and clock up to 5.7ghz.
Sounds really complicated I'd think the bigger the chip is the more power you could get from it not the other way around lol
The limits on chips are the area of the die (more stuff = more math you can do at a time) and heat (beyond ~110-120*C the silicon actually melts). The smaller the transistor the less heat it generates so shrinking them makes it so that you can run them faster. Also, the bigger the chip the more likely that a defect in the process will render the whole chip unusable. Lastly there's something called a reticle limit which is how big of a pattern the machine can make at a time, which limits the max size of a chip.
One would hope, but never underestimate MS’ willingness to threaten retailers with things like pulling Surface products and MS accessories for PC if they drop Xbox.
