AMD Radeon Sky 500 Professional Graphics Card

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Overview
Manufacturer
AMD
Original Series
Radeon Sky
Release Date
March 26th, 2013
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
Pitcairn XT (Pitcairn)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fabrication Process
28 nm
Die Size
212 mm2
Transistors Count
2.8B
Transistors Density
13.2M TRAN/mm2
Stream Processors
1280
Compute Units
80
Shader Engines
20
TMUs
80
ROPs
32
Clocks
Base Clock
950 MHz
Boost Clock
TBC MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
4800 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
4096 MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus Width
256-bit
Memory Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s

Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 3.0 x16
Height
1-slot
Power Connectors
1× 6-pin
TDP/TBP
150 W
Recommended PSU
450 W
Display Outputs
DisplayPort
1 ×
API Support
DirectX
11.2
Vulkan
-
OpenGL
4.4
OpenCL
1.2

Performance
Pixel Fillrate
30.4 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
76 GTexel/s
Peak FP32
2.4 TFLOPS
FP32 Perf. per Watt
16.2 GFLOPS/W
FP32 Perf. per mm2
11.5 GFLOPS/mm2




 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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AMD Radeon Sky 900
 
3584
-
 
5 Gbps
 
12 GB GD5 384b
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AMD Radeon Sky 700
 
1792
-
 
5 Gbps
 
6 GB GD5 384b
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AMD Radeon Sky 500
 
1280
-
 
4.8 Gbps
 
4 GB GD5 256b
 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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AMD Radeon Sky 500
 
1280
-
 
4.8 GB/s
 
4 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
 
1280
-
 
4.8 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon HD 8870
 
1280
-
 
4.8 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon R9 270X
 
1280
 
1050 MHz
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon R9 370X
 
1280
 
1050 MHz
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon HD 8860
 
1280
-
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon R9 270
 
1280
 
925 MHz
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon R9 370
 
1024
-
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon R7 370
 
1024
 
975 MHz
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon R7 265
 
1024
 
925 MHz
 
5.6 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b
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AMD Radeon HD 7850
 
1024
-
 
4.8 GB/s
 
2 GB GD5 256b

SAN FRANCISCO — Mar. 26, 2013 — Today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) AMD (NYSE: AMD) unveiled its leadership strategy for the worldwide gaming market. AMD’s Unified Gaming Strategy comprehensively addresses how AMD will drive the gaming market across consoles, cloud platforms, tablets and PCs. By working with the world’s leading hardware and game developers, and by continuing to be a leader in the market by providing the most innovative graphics technologies, AMD is effectively positioned to drive the next revolution in gaming.

Gaming Evolved, launched three years ago at GDC, is at the core of the AMD Unified Gaming Strategy, and has been the driving force behind the revolutionary “Never Settle” gaming bundles and a major factor behind the adoption of powerful AMD engines in the latest next-generation gaming consoles. Building on this momentum, AMD today introduced AMD Radeon™ Sky Graphics, the cornerstone of AMD’s industry-leading cloud gaming platform.
“Real-time gaming through the cloud represents a significant opportunity and AMD is poised to lead in this vertical thanks to our extensive graphics hardware and software capabilities,” said David Cummings, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics. “AMD is working closely with CiiNow,G-Cluster, Otoy and Ubitus to deliver exceptional AMD Radeon™ gaming experiences to the cloud.”
Built from the ground up on the AMD Graphics Core Next architecture, this best-in-class graphics technology will lead the way in performance and define cloud gaming experiences for gamers. By working with industry-leaders like CiiNow, G-Cluster, Otoy and Ubitus, AMD has developed flexible cloud gaming technology and designed a solution that enables game developers and service providers to deliver a world-class content experience to millions of gamers whether it’s through PCs, tablets, Smart TVs or mobile devices. Powering this seamless experience is AMD RapidFire technology, enabling highly efficient and responsive game streaming.