AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 896SP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 360 896SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 360 896SP

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +92%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Aug 2012

Pirate Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

32

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

500W

250 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tobago

GPU Name

New Zealand

Tobago XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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