AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon Sky 500 AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +306%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

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Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon Sky

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Oland

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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