Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
5728
A30 PCIe
+80%
10320
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2021
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
2304
Shading Units
3584
144
TMUs
224
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
24 MB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
165W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GA100
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.7
Shader Model
N/A