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by Brett Howse on November 3, 2017 3:01 AM EST

Posted in Consoles Microsoft Xbox One Xbox Xbox One X

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Off – Xbox One X is powered off in Energy Savings mode, which means standby mode is disabled.

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Load (GoW4) – Ethernet connected, no disc in the drive, playing Gears of War 4 in UHD/HDR. RyanSmithAT: @adisor19 We will not be
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Load (The Wolf Among Us) – Ethernet connected, no disc in the drive, playing The Wolf Among Us in FHD
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Xbox One < 2W 14.2W 53W 80W 107W 102W
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As with the original Xbox One, when Instant On is disabled, the console is practically fully off. There’s a small
amount of draw, but overall, not very much. Most people that use the console are going to likely want it in gavbon86: @Claressashields
Instant On mode though, so games and the console can update while the system is off, as well as to provide @Savmarshall1 You absolutely outclassed
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a much quicker startup time, and games can remain loaded in RAM. In Standby mode, power draw is
reasonable at 10 W, which is lower than the original console when it first launched. It’s still a fair bit of power, gavbon86: @MatchroomBoxing @iam_yafai
but when you factor in that it needs to keep 12 GB of GDDR5 memory powered up (among other things), it is @DAZNBoxing 3rd ranked versus 138th
not unreasonable to expect this amount of power draw. ranked...Amazing match up

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Idling at the dashboard draws around 55 W, and to add to that, most non-gaming tasks don’t add very much
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Playing back a UHD Blu-Ray (standard Blu-Ray on the original Xbox One) was a tiny bit higher than idle,
which is good to see. Some of the draw would be the disc drive itself, but a lot of the playback would be
offloaded to fixed function hardware in the media block so it’s not surprising to see it so close to idle.

Clearly gaming on older Xbox One games is not much of a chore for the Xbox One X, since the power draw is
only about 50 W over idle. But, when gaming with an Xbox One X Enhanced title, such as Gears of War 4, the
power draw jumps significantly to 172 W as the peak observed. This is quite a jump over the original console,
and makes the cooling system, which is barely audible even under these loads, even more impressive.
Compared to a high-end gaming PC though, the power draw is quite a bit less.

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dugiebones - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

I wonder how it will stack up with a $500~ prebuilt PC/steam machine ...

Ryan Smith - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

Right now very favorably due to the high price of PC video cards.

alistair.brogan - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

Yeah people are asking 400 dollars Canadian for a USED gtx 1060 6gb. This is priced very
competitively in Canada for sure, just 599.

Sad a little about the lack of Ryzen, will affect future proofing, but this is so much better than the first
xbox one.

silverblue - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

I imagine a custom Ryzen APU would be ideal, though as Jaguar has eight independent cores with
their own FPUs, I don't think a 4C/8T replacement would suit... that would mean swapping out four
real cores for four logical ones.

alistair.brogan - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

There is a strong case to be made for building an i3-8100 system for your living room instead of
buying an Xbox One X, to get strong 60 fps support.

But memory prices, gpu prices, and a Windows licence are all too expensive. 12GB GDDR5 must
have cost Microsoft a pretty penny.

jschubart - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

You can get an OEM Windows Pro license for about $15. Or you can just install SteamOS.
Even then, it's not easy to get it under $500. Best bet would be to find one on Craigslist or
eBay for cheap and upgrade the video card and maybe the power supply.

Hrel - Sunday, November 5, 2017 - link

None Sense, you can go on Ebay or Amazon and get slightly used, perfectly flawless,
computer components from one generation ago and build something for $400 that would blow
this out of the water. Not to mention you have to pay a special fee to play video games online,
on top of the internet.

trivor - Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - link

More so than most, I am leery about paying for used electronics as there isn't any way to
measure how much use and abuse they have. In order to make an apples to apples
comparison you really need to compare "Brand new PC" to "Brand new XBox One X". If you
want to wait you can probably get a discount on a used XBox One X. Even so, building a
system that can compete with this (which only works if you have the 4K TV) is going to be
difficult even if you use "used" components. This is a very high quality device that will bring
ultra hi-res 1080P games (all graphics enhancements) or 2160P games with frame rates
between 30 - 60 fps. In many cases an enhanced 1080P game can look as good or better than
a 4K game. If you're a high level gamer looking for the best the $499 is a bargain.

mr_tawan - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

I think the Ryzen SOC would goes to the next gen instead.

Samus - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link

Seeing how AMD seems to have a lock on console APU's/SoC's I would bet real money the
next consoles will be based on Zen cores with a Vega GPU. Microsoft, Sony, and historically
Nintendo, all seemed pretty comfortable working with AMD.

Of course, the switch is obviously nVidia Tegra-based, so who knows about Nintendo...and if
they will even make a performance console again...

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