PlayStation 4 GPU: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started PlayStation 4 GPU sales 24 November 2013 at a recommended price of $399. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 176.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 305 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about PlayStation 4 GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Liverpool | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 24 November 2013 (12 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
PlayStation 4 GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of PlayStation 4 GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1152 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 800 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 57.60 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.843 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 72 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of PlayStation 4 GPU and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | IGP | |
| Length | 305 mm | |
| Width | IGP | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on PlayStation 4 GPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 176.0 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on PlayStation 4 GPU. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by PlayStation 4 GPU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1* | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to PlayStation 4 GPU is GeForce GTX 1630.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with PlayStation 4 GPU according to our statistics.
