Playstation 5 GPU: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Playstation 5 GPU sales 28 September 2022 at a recommended price of $499. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 6 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 390 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 180 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Playstation 5 GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | Oberon Plus | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 28 September 2022 (2 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Playstation 5 GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Playstation 5 GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2304 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 2233 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 2233 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 10,600 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 180 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 321.6 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 10.29 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 144 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Playstation 5 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 | 390 mm | |
| Width | IGP | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Playstation 5 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 | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 448.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Playstation 5 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 | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Playstation 5 GPU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Playstation 5 GPU is GeForce RTX 2080.
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 5 GPU according to our statistics.
