ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (145W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1238%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

36

-

320

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

145W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Ellesmere

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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