AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 143.9GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

Lower TDP (107W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +137%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon Sky

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

16

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

107W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Navi 24

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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