Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 8800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT 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 6 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2192 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+1604%
5728
GeForce 8800 GT
336
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Oct 2007
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
2304
Shading Units
112
144
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
125W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
G92
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
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