AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

ATI Radeon HD 3690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3690 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 late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 26.56GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +466%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3690

0.429 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon HD 3690

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

26.56GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

4

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.8 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV670

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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