AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 370

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD Radeon R9 370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 +62%

2.496 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon R9 370

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

May 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

24

-

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.496 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

156.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

110W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Trinidad

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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