AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1757MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +58%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

28

1536

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Orthrus

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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