Microsoft increases Xbox One’s GPU clock speed as it finalizes console hardware

Microsoft is just a few short months away from releasing the Xbox One, but that’s not stopping the company from making some last-minute improvements to the next-gen hardware.

In an interview with Microsoft spokesperson Larry Hyrb, Xbox One chief architect Marc Whitten confirmed that his team was able to squeeze a bit of extra speed out of the Xbox One’s graphics card. The GPU now runs at 853 MHz instead of 800 MHz. This means that the newly improved GPUs can execute instructions just a bit faster than before.