ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 370
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 370 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (110W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 370
+424%
2.496 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
May 2015
Radeon R600
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
925 MHz
-
Boost Clock
975 MHz
828 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
106.0GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.89 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
11.89 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
78.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
475.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.496 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
156.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
110W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Trinidad
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
