ATI Radeon X1650 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

ATI Radeon X1650

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1650

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

4

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Ultra-Threaded SE

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.105 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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