AMD Radeon Pro W6800X vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800X +179%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

2087 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

36

-

3840

Shading Units

2304

240

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

200.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

500.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

32.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

16.03 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

1002 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Apple MPX

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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