AMD Radeon RX 570X vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +109%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2013

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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