AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI FirePro V8700

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

ATI FirePro V8700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +102%

2.432 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

FirePro V8700

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.0 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV770

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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