ATI 3D Rage II+ DVD vs Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code nameEllesmereMach64 GT-B
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date24 April 2017 (7 years ago)1 September 1996 (28 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304no data
Core clock speed1243 MHz60 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million5 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm500 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattno data
Texture fill rate179.00.06
Floating-point processing power5.728 TFLOPSno data
ROPs321
TMUs1441

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length305 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount16 GB4 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz83 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s664.0 MB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)5.0
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2017 1 September 1996
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 500 nm

Pro Duo Polaris has an age advantage of 20 years, a 409500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 3D Rage II+ DVD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Duo Polaris is a workstation graphics card while 3D Rage II+ DVD is a desktop one.


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