AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1103%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

R600

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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