Xbox Series S: is it weaker than the Xbox One X?

The Xbox Series S won't be as powerful as the Series X version.

But how does the slimmed-down next-gen version compare to the currently most powerful Microsoft console?

• The Xbox Series X * and Series S will be released in November.

• The latter will be the cheapest of the next-gen consoles.

• But Microsoft is making some cuts in hardware - how strong is the Xbox Series S compared to the Xbox One X?

One X, One S, Series X, Series S - keeping track of Microsoft's gaming consoles can be a bit difficult.

As a rule of thumb, gamers can keep in mind: if there is an "X" next to it, it is the most powerful version of the console generation.

The "S" indicates a weaker variant. This is also the case with the next-gen Xbox. The Xbox Series S does not have the same power as the Series X and also does without a Blu-Ray drive Microsoft offers them relatively cheap. * But the Xbox Series S is even weaker than the Xbox One X - Microsoft's currently most powerful console - due to the cutbacks in some areas. This also has an impact on downward compatibility.

Xbox Series S without native 4K but with ray tracing

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The Xbox Series S will be cheap, but also a little weaker than Xbox Series X.

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In fact, the

sometimes more powerful than the Series S on paper. The Xbox One X can display 4K, but the prerequisite for this is of course a corresponding 4K television.

In addition, the console has a higher graphics performance with 6 TFLOPs and 12 GB of RAM.

The

on the other hand, can only display 4K upscaled.

Otherwise the games run at 1440p.

The graphics performance is also only 4 TFLOPs and the RAM is 10 GB.

The console may be weaker on these points, but it has next-gen features that the Xbox One X does not have - above all ray tracing, which makes light and shadow effects more realistic.

The specific hardware performance also has an influence on the backward compatibility of older Xbox games.

Microsoft has confirmed that older Xbox titles will remain playable on the next-gen.

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Now it's getting confusing again: Microsoft has confirmed (via VGC) that the Xbox Series S will

of Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles.

Instead, older console generation games will run as Xbox One S versions, but with improved textures, higher frame rates, faster loading times and auto-HDR.

What does that mean?

So the Xbox Series S won't be able to take on the game improvements that the Xbox One X enables.

But the hardware ensures that

.

If you still have numerous discs from old Xbox games on the shelf and want to play them on a new console, you should opt for the Xbox Series X anyway, because the Series S does not have a drive.

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