AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB

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AMD Radeon Sky 500 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 16MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 16 MB 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 2.656GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 16 MB

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Sky

Generation

Voodoo4-2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

166 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

2.656GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

2

32

ROPs

2

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

332.0 MPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

332.0 MTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

VSA-101

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Daytona (355-0025-221)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Voodoo Scalable

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.014 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

112 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

15W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

6.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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