Project Scorpio: Devs now have 9GB of GDDR5 RAM to work with

9 Jun 2017

Steve Wright

Microsoft’s Mike Ybarra took to Twitter to confirm Microsoft has unlocked more GDDR5 RAM for developers to work with on the Xbox One’s evolution, Project Scorpio.

This means devs now have 9GB of RAM to work with.

We’ll keep tuning Scorpio to empower creators to share the best versions of their games. Unlocked extra GB of RAM for them, now 9GB of GDDR5

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) June 8, 2017

The console, specced here, will be fully detailed at this year’s E3.

You can see how Microsoft is demonstrating Project Scorpio here.

Microsoft’s press conference takes place at 7.00 am AEST on 12 June.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.