AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 360

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon R7 360

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 360 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +166%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon R7 360

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

100W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tobago

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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