AMD Wii U GPU vs NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 28nm
We compared two Game console GPUs: 2GB VRAM Wii U 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
AMD Wii U GPU 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
160 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 28nm 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (21W vs 33W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Jun 2013
Console GPU
Generation
Console GPU
Game console
Type
Game console
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Clock Speeds
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800 MHz
Memory Clock
650 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
20.80GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
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160
Shading Units
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16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
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Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.20 GTexel/s
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176.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
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Board Design
33W
TDP
21W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
Latte
GPU Name
RSX-28nm
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GPU Variant
RSX-D5305L
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Curie
Renesas
Foundry
Sony
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.88 billion
Transistors
0.302 billion
146 mm²
Die Size
68 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
N/A
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OpenGL
ES 1.1
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
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Vulkan
N/A
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5.0
Shader Model
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