ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +16%

2.432 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

20

-

1440

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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