Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GT 420 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 370 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1232 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 110W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 370
+1762%
2496
GeForce GT 420 OEM
134
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Sep 2010
Pirate Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
925 MHz
Base Clock
-
975 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
1280
Shading Units
48
80
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.400 GPixel/s
78.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.800 GTexel/s
2.496 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
134.4 GFLOPS
156.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
110W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Trinidad
GPU Name
GF108
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
GPU Variant
GF108-200-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
