Xbox Series S GPU: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Xbox Series S GPU sales 10 November 2020 at a recommended price of $299 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 274 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Xbox Series S GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | Lockhart | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 10 November 2020 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $299 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Xbox Series S GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Xbox Series S GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1565 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 8,000 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 125.2 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.006 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 80 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Xbox Series S GPU and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | IGP | |
| Length | 274 mm | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Xbox Series S GPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Xbox Series S GPU. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1 | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Xbox Series S GPU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Xbox Series S GPU is GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Xbox Series S GPU according to our statistics.
