New Xbox Magnus reveals full specs with a dizzying amount of RAM

[Redaktion]

Moore's Law is Dead has leaked the full specs of Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Magnus chip. It is slated to power the next Xbox console and is due to be released sometime in 2027.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Xbox-Magnus-reveals-full-specs-with-a-dizzying-amount-of-RAM.1134585.0.html

[davidm]

When will NBC bother to understand an npu is not really useful for AI, it's a low power chip only good for simple tasks like background blurring. Anything that can be called AI needs lots of memory, and with few exceptions uses a GPU. This chipset seems to have lots of memory, but calling out the npu as being key is as far as anyone knows wrong.

[Terror Byte]

When will NBC bother to understand an npu is not really useful for AI, it's a low power chip only good for simple tasks like background blurring. Anything that can be called AI needs lots of memory, and with few exceptions uses a GPU. This chipset seems to have lots of memory, but calling out the npu as being key is as far as anyone knows wrong.

Sure if you are talking the current gen NPU's, but by Panther Lake with 110 TOPS, they'll be useful and if they weren't useful why does Topaz leverage the NPU in Apple M4 to improve performance. For laptops they make sense as they use a lot less power than the iGPU. NPU, CPU and GPU can be combined for AI workloads too, it's n0t an either OR situation.