The Coalition uses Xbox Series S SSD as extra memory in Gears of War: E-Day

The Coalition, working with Xbox's platform team, built a system that uses the Series S NVMe drive as an extra tier of memory alongside its 10GB of GDDR6. It let Gears of War: E-Day keep its city density and a 60FPS target while cutting only Lumen reflections, and other studios are already interested.

• Series S SSD acts as RAM, with unused data stored on disk
• Trading 2GB of storage yields about 1GB of usable system memory
• Only Lumen reflections were cut to hold a 60FPS target
• Other game teams are already interested in the technique