AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

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

-

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

36

Compute Units

32

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

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

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

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 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

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

2

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

3

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon RX 7600

4

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

5

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

6

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA NVS 310

7

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

8

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon R7 360

9

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

10

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA RTX A400

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption