AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FireStream 9370

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

AMD FireStream 9370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +43%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireStream 9370

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

FireStream 9370

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

225W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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