AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD FirePro W4000

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD FirePro W4000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +91%

2.432 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

FirePro W4000

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Radeon Sky

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

12

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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