Radeon Sky 500 vs GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition with Radeon Sky 500, including specs and performance data.

GTX 775M Mac Edition
2013
2 GB GDDR5, 100 Watt
3.37

Sky 500 outperforms GTX 775M Mac Edition by a whopping 263% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking735404
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.315.59
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Pitcairn
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date8 November 2013 (11 years ago)27 March 2013 (11 years 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 cores13441280
Core clock speed797 MHz950 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate89.2676.00
Floating-point processing power2.142 TFLOPS2.432 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11280

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 supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s154 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort countno data1
Dual-link DVI support-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.37 12.22
Recency 8 November 2013 27 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 150 Watt

GTX 775M Mac Edition has an age advantage of 7 months, and 50% lower power consumption.

Sky 500, on the other hand, has a 262.6% higher aggregate performance score, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The Radeon Sky 500 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon Sky 500 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition
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