Playstation 5 GPU vs Playstation 3 GPU 40nm
We compared two Game console GPUs: 16GB VRAM Playstation 5 GPU and 256MB VRAM Playstation 3 GPU 40nm to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Playstation 5 GPU 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Playstation 3 GPU 40nm 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 180W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Oct 2012
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
Bus Interface
-
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
-
0
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
650 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.80GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
SM Count
-
2304
Shading Units
-
144
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
8
Tensor Cores
-
RT Cores
-
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
142.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
321.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.20 GTexel/s
20.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
643.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
35W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 1.3
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Oberon Plus
GPU Name
RSX-40nm
-
GPU Variant
RSX-CXD5302
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
Sony
6 nm
Process Size
40 nm
10.6 billion
Transistors
0.302 billion
Unknown
Die Size
114 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
ES 1.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
-
