ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI 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 Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 20 years late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Apr 2017
Rage 2
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
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-
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83 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
16GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
2304
1
TMUs
144
1
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
UMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
500 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
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Shader Model
6.7
