Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs VII

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking86not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.48no data
Power efficiency10.01no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameVega 20Ellesmere
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 February 2019 (5 years ago)24 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 $999

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 cores38402304
Core clock speed1400 MHz1243 MHz
Boost clock speed1750 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,230 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate420.0179.0
Floating-point processing power13.44 TFLOPS5.728 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs240144

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 3.0 x16
Length280 mm305 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth1024 GB/s224.0 GB/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 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.76.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2019 24 April 2017
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 295 Watt 250 Watt

Radeon VII has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Pro Duo Polaris, on the other hand, has 18% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon VII is a desktop card while Radeon Pro Duo Polaris is a workstation one.


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