Radeon Pro W6600 vs Playstation 3 RSX 40nm

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated104
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.21
Power efficiencyno data27.59
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRSX-CXD5302Navi 23
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 October 2012 (12 years ago)8 June 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1792
Core clock speed550 MHz2331 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2903 MHz
Number of transistors302 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate13.20325.1
Floating-point processing powerno data10.4 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs24112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s224.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLES 1.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 October 2012 8 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 100 Watt

Playstation 3 RSX 40nm has 185.7% lower power consumption.

Pro W6600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Playstation 3 RSX 40nm and Radeon Pro W6600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Playstation 3 RSX 40nm is a notebook card while Radeon Pro W6600 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Playstation 3 RSX 40nm
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