AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +89%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jun 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Trinidad

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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