AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 455 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 455 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +50%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 455 OEM

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon RX 455 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon Sky

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

12

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

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

16.80 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tobago

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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