Project Scorpio's Official Name is Xbox One X

Xbox One X's release date has also been revealed.

By Lucy O'Brien

Project Scorpio's official name is Xbox One X, it was revealed today at Xbox's E3 press conference.

Xbox One X launches worldwide on November 7. Head of Xbox Hardware Engineering Kareem Choudhry discussed the new system at the start of the Xbox press conference.

Choudhry said it is not only the most powerful console ever, but is also the smallest Xbox console ever made. The system will have a six Teraflop GPU clocked at 1.172 Ghz, as well as 12 GB GDDR5 memory, 326 GBs of memory bandwidth, and true 4K resolution. All Xbox One accessories and games will work on Xbox One X, with Choudhry promising that the existing games library will also receive an update, including faster load times and more, even without a 4K TV.

The Xbox One X will include a liquid-cooled vapor chamber used more often with servers and high-end PC cards, according to Choudhry.

Codenamed 'Project Scorpio', Xbox One X was first revealed at Xbox's E3 conference last year, where it was touted as "the most powerful console ever built." We subsequently learned its tech specs — Scorpio's CPU is 30 percent faster than the one powering the current Xbox One, and boasts a GPU that is 4.6 times more powerful — and we also got a look at the Project Scorpio dev kit. It is, however, still part of the Xbox One family.

Thanks to faster hard drive speeds and RAM, Xbox One X can also display games in 4K.

For more on all things Xbox and E3, stay tuned to IGN's E3 2017 hub.

Lucy O'Brien is an editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her ramblings on Twitter.

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