Playstation 3 GPU 28nm vs Radeon R5 430 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking804not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.69no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameOlandRSX-28nm
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)3 June 2013 (11 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed730 MHz550 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million302 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt21 Watt
Texture fill rate18.7213.20
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPSno data
ROPs88
TMUs2424

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth36.8 GB/s22.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)N/A
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6ES 1.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 3 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 21 Watt

R5 430 OEM has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Playstation 3 GPU 28nm, on the other hand, has 138.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 430 OEM and Playstation 3 GPU 28nm. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 430 OEM is a desktop card while Playstation 3 GPU 28nm is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM
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NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 28nm
Playstation 3 GPU 28nm

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