AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Sky 500 and ATI Radeon X1300 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 58% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 31.7x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
  • 6x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 56.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4709 vs 84
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 313
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 March 2013 vs 1 November 2006
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 76 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4709 vs 84
PassMark - G2D Mark 572 vs 313

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

  • 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 31 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Sky 500
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4709
84
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
572
313
Name AMD Radeon Sky 500 ATI Radeon X1300 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 4709 84
PassMark - G2D Mark 572 313
Geekbench - OpenCL 74902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 54.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1096.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 89.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 247.642
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5116

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Pitcairn RV516
Launch date 27 March 2013 1 November 2006
Place in performance rating 516 517
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 950 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 76 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 31 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort count 1
Dual-link DVI support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 242 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 154 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR