Radeon 680M vs Playstation 3 RSX 40nm

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated336
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.12
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRSX-CXD5302Rembrandt+
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 October 2012 (12 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 data768
Core clock speed550 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors302 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate13.20105.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2448
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 x8
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 October 2012 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 50 Watt

Playstation 3 RSX 40nm has 42.9% lower power consumption.

Radeon 680M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Playstation 3 RSX 40nm and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Playstation 3 RSX 40nm is a notebook card while Radeon 680M is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Playstation 3 RSX 40nm
Playstation 3 RSX 40nm
AMD Radeon 680M
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