AMD Radeon R7 360 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 360 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 360 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 360

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +134%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.613 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

100.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tobago

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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