Playstation 3 RSX 40nm vs Radeon HD 7450A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1154not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.08no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameCaicosRSX-CXD5302
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years ago)4 October 2012 (12 years 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 cores160no data
Core clock speed625 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors370 million302 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate5.00013.20
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)IGP

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s22.4 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4ES 1.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2012 4 October 2012
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 35 Watt

HD 7450A has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 40% lower power consumption.

Playstation 3 RSX 40nm, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7450A and Playstation 3 RSX 40nm. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7450A
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