ATI Xbox 360 GPU 90nm 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 ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRSX-CXD2991Xenos Xenon
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 November 2006 (17 years ago)22 November 2005 (18 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 coresno data240
Core clock speed550 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors300 million232 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)81 Watt203 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP

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 dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 GB/s

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLES 1.1N/A
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2006 22 November 2005
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 81 Watt 203 Watt

Playstation 3 RSX has an age advantage of 11 months, a 38.5% more advanced lithography process, and 150.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Playstation 3 RSX and Xbox 360 GPU 90nm. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Playstation 3 RSX is a desktop card while Xbox 360 GPU 90nm is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Playstation 3 RSX
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