Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce GT 420 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
2256 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+4174%
5728
GeForce GT 420 OEM
134
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Sep 2010
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 400
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
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
2304
Shading Units
48
144
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.400 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.800 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
134.4 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GF108
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
GF108-200-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.7
Shader Model
5.1