Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon HD 6530
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 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 late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)
880 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages
Lower TDP (39W vs 110W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 370
+380%
2496
Radeon HD 6530
520
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
May 2011
Pirate Islands
Generation
Northern Islands
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
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
5
1280
Shading Units
400
80
TMUs
20
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.200 GPixel/s
78.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.00 GTexel/s
2.496 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
520.0 GFLOPS
156.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
110W
TDP
39W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 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
-
Graphics Processor
Trinidad
GPU Name
Redwood
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
GPU Variant
Redwood PRO
(215-0757004)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
