The infamous Red Ring of Death (RRoD) has plagued Microsoft since the launch of the Xbox 360. The stakes are a lot higher with Jasper however this may very well be the Xbox 360 to get, not only is it a lot cooler and cheaper for Microsoft to manufacture, but it may finally solve the 360's biggest issue to date. The same for Falcon, and naturally, the same for Jasper. When Xenon came out, we bought one and took it apart. Jasper keeps the same 65nm CPU from Falcon/Opus, but shrinks the GPU down to 65nm as well. Falcon came with HDMI by default, but Microsoft eventually made a revision without HDMI called Opus (opus we built a console that fails a lot! sorry, couldn't resist).įinally, after much speculation, the 3rd generation Xbox 360 started popping up in stores right around the holiday buying season and it's called Jasper. Falcon featured a 65nm CPU, 80nm GPU and 80nm eDRAM. In 2007 the 2nd generation Xbox 360 came out, codenamed Falcon. Can you tell them apart? I'll show you how. Microsoft added HDMI support to Xenon and called it Zephyr, the big three chips were still all 90nm designs.įrom top to bottom: Jasper (Arcade so no chrome on the DVD drive), Xenon, Falcon, Xenon. The Xenon platform featured a 90nm Xenon CPU (clever naming there), a 90nm Xenos GPU and a 90nm eDRAM. The first Xbox 360 was released in 2005 and used a motherboard codenamed Xenon. Xbox 360 Revisionįirst let's get the codenames right.

And I thought the reason people bought consoles was to avoid dealing with the hardware nitty-gritty.

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