AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (188W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +110%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2009

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1600

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cypress

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

188W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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