AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and AMD Radeon R9 290X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

AMD Radeon R9 290X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
12.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 179.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 176.0 GTexel / s
Around 64% higher pipelines: 2x 2304 vs 2816
2x better floating-point performance: 2x 5,728 gflops vs 5,632 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2x 16392 MB vs 4 GB
5.6x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	24 April 2017 vs 24 October 2013
Texture fill rate	2x 179.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 176.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 2304 vs 2816
Floating-point performance	2x 5,728 gflops vs 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 16392 MB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris	AMD Radeon R9 290X
PassMark - G3D Mark		8526
PassMark - G2D Mark		755
Geekbench - OpenCL		43410
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		117.322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2460.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.12
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		120.942
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		628.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		7055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3932

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris	AMD Radeon R9 290X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Ellesmere	Hawaii
Launch date	24 April 2017	24 October 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	$549
Place in performance rating	not rated	284
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	1243 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 5,728 gflops	5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2x 2304	2816
Texture fill rate	2x 179.0 GTexel / s billion / sec	176.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	6,200 million
Boost clock speed		947 MHz
Stream Processors		2560
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm	275 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 16392 MB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 224.0 GB / s	320 GB/s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)