AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +367%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Radeon Sky

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

5

-

1280

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Redwood

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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