AMD Playstation 4 GPU vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Jan 2013
Generation
Console GPU
Sea Islands
Type
Game console
Desktop
Bus Interface
—
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
18
32
Shading Units
1152
2048
TMUs
72
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
—
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
—
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
57.60 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
1.843 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
1.843 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Liverpool
Tahiti
GPU Variant
CXD90026BG
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
4.313 billion
Die Size
348 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.1*
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.