AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +51%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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