AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1160 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +1588%

2.432 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Radeon Sky

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

3

-

1280

Shading Units

120

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV630

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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