AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +121%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Oct 2017

Radeon Sky

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

8

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Baffin

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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