AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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 8 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +377%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2009

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

10

2304

Shading Units

800

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV770

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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