Radeon Pro Duo Polaris: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon Pro Duo Polaris sales 24 April 2017 at a recommended price of $999 . This is a GCN 4.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 305 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon Pro Duo Polaris: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
GPU code name | Ellesmere | |
Market segment | Workstation | |
Release date | 24 April 2017 (7 years ago) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | |
Current price | $173 (0.2x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro Duo Polaris's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2304 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 1243 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 5,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 179.0 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 2x 5,728 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
Length | 305 mm | |
Width | 2-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro Duo Polaris: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR5 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 7000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro Duo Polaris. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon Pro Duo Polaris, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
Shader Model | 6.4 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
OpenCL | 2.0 | |
Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro Duo Polaris is Tesla P4.
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