AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +111%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

24

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cayman

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

389 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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