Xbox Scarlett Specs Rumor Hints At 12 Teraflops Ray Tracing Dev Kits

Over the last few days, a rumor about Xbox Scarlett specs has popped up on Reddit.

Despite being quickly dubbed as fake or at least very doubt, a verified user on ResetEra has offered a comment about those specs, suggesting some of them could be legit instead.

These are the specifics in question:

• CPU: Custom 8 cores / 16 Threads Zen 2 CPU
• GPU: Custom NAVI @12+ teraflops
• Memory: 16GB GDDR6
• Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD @ 1+GB/s
• DirectX Raytracing + MS AI

This is the comment, which among the other things suggest the console is set to have a SSD storage, a new SoC codenamed Anubis and more.

Dev kits are reportedly being delivered after GDC 2019 in March.

• The hardware is partially true
• Storage is true
• Raytracing is true
• Lockhart is not Streaming box
• Xbox SoC codename is Anubis, check AMD’s plan
• MS AI is not a part of the hardware, in other words, never heard of TPU or ASIC like it
• How to implement Raytracing? See GDC 2019
• Why they make a decision like Lockhart? See GDC 2019
• Why there still no DevKit? After GDC 2019

Xbox Scarlett is reportedly coming in 2020, with two different models similarly to what happened with Xbox 360.