Some more details here: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-xbox-one-x-back-compat-how-does-it-actually-work https://www.eurogamer.net/articl

Some more details here: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-xbox-one-x-back-compat-how-does-it-actually-work https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-xbox-... It's worth pointing out that there is an "emulator" but as you noted, it's not for the CPU (it's for the GPU)