Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Oct 1999
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
-
144
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
NV10
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Celsius
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
220 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
-
