Aldebaran vs Sun

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code name	Sun	Aldebaran
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	no data	no data
Current price	$13.28	$87

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	2x 7040
Number of transistors	690 million	58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	6 nm

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 type	no data	HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount	no data	2x 64 GB MB
Memory bus width	no data	2x 4096 Bit
Memory bandwidth	no data	2x 1638 GB/s

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	N/A
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	N/A
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	2.1 (1.2)	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.170	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

28 nm

6 nm

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