ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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ATI Radeon HD 5950 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 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

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +174%

5.728 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

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Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

36

1440

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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