AMD Radeon Sky 700: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon Sky 700 sales 27 March 2013. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 176 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.
We have no data on Radeon Sky 700 benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon Sky 700: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Tahiti | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 27 March 2013 (11 years old) | |
| Current price | $892 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Radeon Sky 700's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Sky 700's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1792 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 4,313 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 225 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 100.8 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 3,226 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Sky 700 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Form factor | full height / full length | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Sky 700: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 5500 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 176 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Sky 700. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DisplayPort | |
| DisplayPort count | 1 | |
| Dual-link DVI support | 1 |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon Sky 700, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Sky 700 is GeForce GTX 680.
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