AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 360

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 360 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +24%

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

Radeon R7 360

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jun 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

12

1120

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tobago

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

100W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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