NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 65nm vs NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm

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NVIDIA Playstation 3 GPU 65nm NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm

We compared two Game console GPUs: 256MB VRAM Playstation 3 GPU 65nm and 4GB VRAM Switch GPU 20nm to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Switch GPU 20nm 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock768MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (15W vs 58W)

Score

Playstation 3 GPU 65nm

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Switch GPU 20nm

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Mar 2017

Console GPU

Generation

Console GPU

Game console

Type

Game console

-

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

384 MHz

-

Boost Clock

768 MHz

650 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

Shading Units

256

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.29 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.29 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

393.2 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

12.29 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RSX-65nm

GPU Name

GM20B

RSX-CXD2991

GPU Variant

ODNX02-A2

Curie

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Sony

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

20 nm

0.3 billion

Transistors

2 billion

186 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

58W

TDP

15W

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Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

ES 1.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

5.3

-

Shader Model

6.4

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