NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

20480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +4410%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 50

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

1280

680

TMUs

80

192

ROPs

32

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

88 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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