Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (159W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+1201%
5728
FireGL V8600
440
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
May 2007
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
4
2304
Shading Units
320
144
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
159W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
R600
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
