AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM 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 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1203MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +132%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2016

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

937 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM206S

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

950 OEM

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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