Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Boost Clock1206MHz
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+15%
5728
Radeon RX 470
4940
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Aug 2016
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
32
2304
Shading Units
2048
144
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
232 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
