AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +236%

8.192 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Mar 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

20

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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