AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +15%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Radeon Sky

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

14

-

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

65W

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

Polaris 21

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

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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