AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1030MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +13%

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Aug 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

24

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Trinidad

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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