AMD Radeon R7 250X vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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AMD Radeon R7 250X

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +371%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

36

-

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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