AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

44

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hawaii

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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