AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +366%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2012

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

12

-

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x 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

Tahiti

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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