Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs FirePro V7900 SDI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+208%
5728
FirePro V7900 SDI
1856
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
May 2011
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
20
2304
Shading Units
1280
144
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.856 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Cayman
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO GL
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
