Playstation 4 GPU vs Playstation 3 GPU 28nm
We compared two Game console GPUs: 8GB VRAM Playstation 4 GPU and 256MB VRAM Playstation 3 GPU 28nm to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Playstation 4 GPU 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Playstation 3 GPU 28nm 's Advantages
Lower TDP (21W vs 75W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Jun 2013
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
Clock Speeds
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
650 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.80GB/s
Render Config
18
Compute Units
-
1152
Shading Units
-
72
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
8
Theoretical Performance
25.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
57.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.20 GTexel/s
1.843 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1.843 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
21W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Liverpool
GPU Name
RSX-28nm
CXD90026BG
GPU Variant
RSX-D5305L
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
Sony
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.302 billion
348 mm²
Die Size
68 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1*
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
ES 1.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
-
