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Original Xbox launch
On the 15/11/2001, the original xbox launched. It was powered by a 733mhz pentium iii, and a 233mhz nvidia gpu. By the time it reached EOL it made 24 million sales, and it was also one of the first consoles to feature online gaming. -
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Xbox
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Xbox 360 Launch
On the 22/11/2005, the Xbox 360 launched. It was powered by an IBM 3 core "Xenon" cpu, and an ATI "Xenos" gpu. Originally it was going to have 256MB of ram, but this was later doubled to 512MB. The Xbox 360 was much smaller than the Xbox and in total it sold 84 million units. -
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Xbox 360
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The Red Ring of death
The Red Ring of Death was a major hardware issue that was caused by the CPU or GPU solder connections to break and disconnect, or connect to eachother due to rapid heating/cooling. This was an extremely widespread issue and estimate failure rates lie between 23% and 56%. The Red Ring of Death was mostly fixed in later revisions of the consoles motherboard (Falcon, Jasper etc.) however it cost microsoft $1.15 billion to fix it. -
Xbox 360 Slim
The Xbox 360 slim was launched in November 2010, and it was slightly smaller than the original xbox 360 whilst also being better at cooling and did not experience the RRoD anywhere near as much, although occasionally they would still get a similar issue, the Red Dot of Death, albiet much rarer. -
Xbox 360 E
The Xbox 360 E was launched on the 10/6/2013, and it was the last Xbox 360 model. The Xbox 360 E strongly resembled the Xbox One however it was much smaller and it was still an Xbox 360. This is the least popular Xbox 360 variant and also the ugliest -
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Xbox One
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Xbox One
The Xbox One was launched on the 22/11/2013, and it was powered by an AMD "Jaguar" APU @ 1.75ghz with 8 cores and 8GB of ram. The Xbox One is a very bulky console, it was designed this way to avoid the overheating issues the Xbox 360 had. In total the Xbox One series sold ~54 Million units. -
Xbox One S
The Xbox One S was launched on 2/7/2016, and was 40% smaller than the Xbox One. It was also white, and had a higher GPU clock speed and more ESRAM bandwidth which improved performance. It also supported 4K resolution for video (not games), HDR10, and it was a first generation UHD blue-ray player. -
Xbox One X
The Xbox One X was launched on 7/11/2017, and it was even smaller than the Xbox One S. The Xbox One X had a vapor chamber to help cool the APU, which was overclocked to 2.3GHz. It also replaced the old 8GB DDR3 for 12GB GDDR5, which increased the memory bandwidth by about 4.8x. At the time of launch, the Xbox One X was the most power game console to date and even beat the PS4 Pro. Near launch a lot of console's thermal paste dried out causing quite a lot of consoles to break or overheat. -
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Xbox Series X/S
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Xbox Series X
The Xbox Series X was launched on 10/11/2020. The Xbox Series X. It is powered by a custom AMD Zen 2 8 core, 3.8GHz/3.66GHz (with SMT) cpu with a custom 52 CU RDNA 2 GPU clocked at 1.825GHz, and 16GB GDDR6. The Xbox Series X is the first Xbox to come with an SSD, allowing games to load exceptionally quickly compared to previous consoles. The Xbox Series X also can play games in 4K and up to 120 FPS, with video playback support for 8K HDR. -
Xbox Series S
The Xbox Series S was launched alongside the Xbox Series X and is its little brother. The Xbox Series S features the same custom AMD processor, although it is clocked at 3.6GHz/3.4GHz with SMT, and it only has 10GB of ram. It still can play select games at 120 FPS and supports 1440p. While it is weaker than the Xbox Series X, it is cheaper and it is also very compact, being the smallest Xbox ever made.