Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1218MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+359%
5728
Radeon 550X
1247
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2019
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1082 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
8
2304
Shading Units
512
144
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.95 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 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Lexa
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
