AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2 +103%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon RX 570 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Sky

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

268.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

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

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-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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