Playstation 3 RSX 90nm: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Playstation 3 RSX 90nm sales 11 November 2006. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 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. No additional power connector is required, and 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	Desktop
Release date	11 November 2006 (17 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 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	300 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
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 (GA100)
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
Width	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 GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Playstation 3 RSX 90nm. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

---