AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 250 OEM 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 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +610%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

0.806 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

6

2304

Shading Units

384

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.400 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.20 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

806.4 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Oland

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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