AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA RTX A1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1462MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +177%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2024

Radeon Sky

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

727 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA107

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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