Qualcomm Adreno 840 vs Radeon Sky 500

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Sky 500 Sky 500
Qualcomm Adreno 840 Adreno 840

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking455not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.78no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)no data
GPU code namePitcairnno data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date27 March 2013 (12 years ago)24 September 2025 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280no data
Core clock speed950 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate76.00no data
Floating-point processing power2.432 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no data
L1 Cache320 KBno data
L2 Cache512 KBno data

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 supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length242 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5LPDDR5x
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1200 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth154 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DisplayPortno data
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)no data
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary

Recency 27 March 2013 24 September 2025

Qualcomm Adreno 840 has an age advantage of 12 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Sky 500 and Qualcomm Adreno 840. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Sky 500 is a workstation graphics card while Qualcomm Adreno 840 is a notebook one.

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