Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon Sky 500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+135%
5728
Radeon Sky 500
2432
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2013
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Radeon Sky
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/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
30.40 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
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
