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Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon R7 265X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X OEM 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 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock925MHz
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +141%
5728
Radeon R7 265X OEM
2368

Graphics Card

Apr 2017
Release Date
Aug 2014
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz

Memory

16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s

Render Config

36
Compute Units
20
2304
Shading Units
1280
144
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere
GPU Name
Curacao
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO (215-0848000)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
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