Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 250W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jan 2007
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
-
144
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
57W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
RV570
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
GCN 4.0
Architecture
R500
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
3.0
