Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 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 2 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2184 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+3309%
5728
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
168
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Feb 2008
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
3
2304
Shading Units
120
144
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.600 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
168.0 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
45W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
RV630
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
