Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+137%
5728
GeForce GTX 960
2413
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jan 2015
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
1024
144
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 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 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GM206
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
228 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
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4