Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon RX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 8GB)
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
5728
Radeon RX 590
+24%
7119
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Nov 2018
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
36
2304
Shading Units
2304
144
TMUs
144
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
49.44 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
175W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 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 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
12 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
