Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 6 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (228W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+110%
5728
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
2720
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jun 2010
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
20
2304
Shading Units
1600
144
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
228W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Cypress
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
