Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
2240 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+3480%
5728
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
160
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jan 2008
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
2304
Shading Units
64
144
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
105W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
G92
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0