Playstation 3 GPU 90nm vs Radeon R9 280X2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Tahiti	RSX-90nm
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	no data	11 November 2006 (19 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 cores	2048 ×2	no data
Core clock speed	950 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	4,313 million	300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	80 Watt
Texture fill rate	128.0 ×2	12.00
Floating-point processing power	4.096 TFLOPS ×2	no data
ROPs	32 ×2	8
TMUs	128 ×2	24
L1 Cache	512 KB	no data
L2 Cache	768 KB	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Length	315 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	3x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB ×2	256 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit ×2	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s ×2	22.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	N/A
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	no data
OpenGL	4.6	ES 1.1
OpenCL	2.1 (1.2)	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.170	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	80 Watt