AMD Radeon Sky 500: specs and benchmarks

Price now 129$

Games supported 77%

Year of release 2013

Performance 16.15

Summary

AMD started Radeon Sky 500 sales 27 March 2013. This is GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 154 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 242 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

16.15%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

Radeon Sky 500

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

General info

Of Radeon Sky 500's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	285
Value for money	14.40
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Pitcairn
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	27 March 2013 (9 years ago)
Price now	$129	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Value for money

To get the index we compare the characteristics of video cards and their relative prices.

Technical specs

Radeon Sky 500's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Sky 500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	950 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	2,800 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	150 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	76.00	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon Sky 500's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm
Width	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Sky 500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	154 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Sky 500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support	1

API support

APIs supported by Radeon Sky 500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon Sky 500. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Sky 500 16.15

Passmark

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Sky 500 4736

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon Sky 500 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.