AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +216%

2.432 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Sky

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

8

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

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

24.00 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 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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