AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 5.280GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Radeon X1550 AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Radeon Sky

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

330 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

5.280GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV505

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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