AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +77%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Oct 2016

Radeon Sky

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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