Radeon Sky 900 vs RSX-90nm

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameRSX-90nmTahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data27 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Current priceno data$1173

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data3584
Core clock speedno data825 MHz
Boost clock speedno data950 MHz
Number of transistors300 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data106.4
Floating-point performanceno data2x 3,405 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data305 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data5000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data480 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI supportno data1

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLES 1.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 90 nm 28 nm

We couldn't decide between RSX-90nm and Radeon Sky 900. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA RSX-90nm
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AMD Radeon Sky 900
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