FirePro W6150M vs Radeon Sky 500

Place in performance ranking	373	551
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.59	1.38
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	Saturn
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	27 March 2013 (11 years ago)	12 November 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	$129	$299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Sky 500 has 233% better value for money than W6150M.

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 cores	1280	768
Core clock speed	950 MHz	1075 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	76.00	51.60
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops	1,651 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon Sky 500 and FirePro W6150M 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	154 GB/s	88 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 Connectors	1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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 12.33
+102%

W6150M 6.11

Radeon Sky 500 outperforms FirePro W6150M by 102% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Sky 500 4763
+102%

W6150M 2358

Radeon Sky 500 outperforms FirePro W6150M by 102% in Passmark.