Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 370 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Oct 1999
Pirate Islands
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
925 MHz
Base Clock
-
975 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
1280
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
78.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
2.496 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
156.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
110W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Trinidad
GPU Name
NV10
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
-