Radeon RX 7800 XT vs Playstation 3 RSX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated30
Place by popularitynot in top-10084
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.89
Power efficiencyno data16.72
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRSX-CXD2991Navi 32
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 November 2006 (18 years ago)25 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 data3840
Core clock speed550 MHz1295 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2430 MHz
Number of transistors300 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)81 Watt263 Watt
Texture fill rateno data583.2
Floating-point processing powerno data37.32 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz2438 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data624.1 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1
HDMI-+

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
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2006 25 August 2023
Chip lithography 65 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 81 Watt 263 Watt

Playstation 3 RSX has 224.7% lower power consumption.

RX 7800 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 1200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Playstation 3 RSX and Radeon RX 7800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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