AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1201%

5.728 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

159W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

R600

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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