Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Boost Clock1733MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
5728
GeForce GTX 1080
+54%
8873
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
May 2016
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
2304
Shading Units
2560
144
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
180W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GP104
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4