AMD Ellesmere
VS
AMD Radeon Sky 500
AMD Ellesmere
VS
AMD Radeon Sky 500

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
266
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ellesmere
Code name
Pitcairn
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
27 March 2013 (8 years ago)
$49
Price now
$129
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Value for money
15.67
Ellesmere
GPU code name
Pitcairn
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2304
Pipelines
1280
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Core clock speed
950 MHz
5,700 million
Transistor count
2,800 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
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Texture fill rate
76.00
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Floating-point performance
2,432 gflops
2304
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
5,700 million
Number of transistors
2,800 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
150 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
242 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Form factor
full height / full length

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500 can be seen in this section.

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

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
1x DisplayPort
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Dual-link DVI support
1
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DisplayPort count
1

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Ellesmere and AMD Radeon Sky 500 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Ellesmere or AMD Radeon Sky 500 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Ellesmere
AMD Radeon Sky 500
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Ellesmere
AMD Radeon Sky 500
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Ellesmere
AMD Radeon Sky 500
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Ellesmere
AMD Radeon Sky 500
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Ellesmere
AMD Radeon Sky 500
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Ellesmere

Cheaper ($49 vs $129)

More pipelines (2304 vs 1280)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

Advantages of AMD Radeon Sky 500

22.6% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Ellesmere or AMD Radeon Sky 500?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Sky 500 .

AMD Ellesmere versus AMD Radeon Sky 500 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Ellesmere
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon Sky 500