AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

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AMD Radeon Sky 500 ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +143%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

1 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

995 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

R700

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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