Playstation 3 RSX 90nm: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Playstation 3 RSX 90nm sales 11 November 2006. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. Power consumption is at 80 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Playstation 3 RSX 90nm: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | RSX-CXD2953 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 11 November 2006 (18 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Playstation 3 RSX 90nm's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Playstation 3 RSX 90nm's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 300 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 12.00 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Playstation 3 RSX 90nm 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 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Playstation 3 RSX 90nm: 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 | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Playstation 3 RSX 90nm. 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 compatibility
APIs supported by Playstation 3 RSX 90nm, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| OpenGL | ES 1.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Playstation 3 RSX 90nm according to our statistics.
