With the June 2023 update to the Xbox Game Development Kit (GDK), Microsoft has made some changes that will boost memory performance on Xbox Series consoles, and particularly on Xbox Series S, where they’ve been able to free up more RAM space for them to use.
As spotted by The Verge, the June 2023 GDK highlighted some of the key improvements that Microsoft had made to their tools for developers. The video presentation explains that ‘Additional memory is available for Xbox Series S consoles. Hundreds of additional MB of memory are now available to Xbox Series S developers […] which could improve graphics performance in memory constrained conditions.