AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +84%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

Vega

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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