The Xbox One X beast

Teased to the gaming community as the Project Scorpio for a considerable amount of time, Microsoft finally took off wraps of its latest Xbox One X console.

It may not look exciting, particularly with a boring plastic box design. But under the hood is a silicon-plastic combo beast that can pop your eyeballs with its visual rendering abilities. The Xbox One X is tagged as the most powerful gaming console to exist. For tech nerds, the console packs 6 Teraflops of graphical power, which is humiliating for its arch rival — the Sony PS4 Pro with just 4.2 Teraflops of rage. The GPU is a custom built unit by Microsoft running at 1172MHz — a big leap compared to the Xbox One’s 853MHz GPU. Additionally, there’s also an Ultra-HD Blu-ray drive option for 4K movies, and 1TB of built-in storage. Whether you are ploughing through virtual battlefields or cruising through soakingwet racetracks, the Xbox One X can handle the heat of the situation, literally! It uses liquid-cooled vapour-chamber cooling systems, found on NVIDIA’s flagship desktop graphics card — the GeForce GTX 1080. And, if you were wondering about the fate of your recently purchased Forza Horizon 3 or Gears of War 4, you will be happy to know that the latest Xbox has backward compatibility as well, boosting frame rates and loading times for them. The One X will retail for $499 when available later this year in November — approximately `32,000, making it good value for money for the keyboard-mouse warriors.