AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2004

Radeon Sky

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

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

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

NV41

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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