AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 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 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1527%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2010

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

39W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Redwood

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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