Radeon Pro W6800 vs 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 rated53
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data23.63
Power efficiencyno data14.10
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameEllesmereNavi 21
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date24 April 2017 (7 years ago)8 June 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 $2,249

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23043840
Core clock speed1243 MHz2075 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2320 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate179.0556.8
Floating-point processing power5.728 TFLOPS17.82 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs144240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length305 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DisplayPort6x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2017 8 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm

Pro W6800 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and Radeon Pro W6800. We've got no test results to judge.


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