AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +174%

5.728 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

18

2304

Shading Units

1440

144

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hemlock

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

302W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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