PlayStation 4 GPU vs Radeon R7 A265

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking822not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameOpalLiverpool
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 January 2014 (10 years ago)24 November 2013 (11 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 cores3841152
Core clock speed725 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate19.8057.60
Floating-point processing power0.6336 TFLOPS1.843 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2472

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP
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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s176.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1*
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2014 24 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB

R7 A265 has an age advantage of 1 month.

PlayStation 4 GPU, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 A265 and PlayStation 4 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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