AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2150MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +284%

22.02 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2021

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

80

2304

Shading Units

5120

144

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Navi 21

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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