GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs Playstation 3 RSX 90nm

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRSX-CXD2953AD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 November 2006 (18 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 data7424
Core clock speed500 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors300 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate12.00313.2
Floating-point processing powerno data20.04 TFLOPS
ROPs880
TMUs24232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s336.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLES 1.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2006 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 4080 Max-Q has an age advantage of 16 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 2150% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Playstation 3 RSX 90nm and GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Playstation 3 RSX 90nm
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