NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 28nm vs NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm
We compared two Game console GPUs: 256MB VRAM Playstation 3 GPU 28nm and 4GB VRAM Switch GPU 20nm to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock768MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (15W vs 21W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2013
Release Date
Mar 2017
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
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Clock Speeds
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Base Clock
384 MHz
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Boost Clock
768 MHz
650 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
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Shading Units
256
24
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
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Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.29 GPixel/s
13.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.29 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
786.4 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
393.2 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
12.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
21W
TDP
15W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RSX-28nm
GPU Name
GM20B
RSX-D5305L
GPU Variant
ODNX02-A2
Curie
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Sony
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
20 nm
0.302 billion
Transistors
2 billion
68 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_1)
ES 1.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
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CUDA
5.3
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Shader Model
6.4
