NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +1362%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

82

SM Count

-

10496

Shading Units

1280

328

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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