AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI FireGL V5600

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

ATI FireGL V5600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1160 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +1166%

2.432 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Aug 2007

Radeon Sky

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/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

3.200 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

89W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV630

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

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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