AMD Radeon R7 370 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 370 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 370 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (110W vs 250W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 370

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +89%

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 370

1507

Radeon HD 7970 +51%

2279

Radeon R7 370

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Dec 2011

Pirate Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

32

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Tahiti

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

110W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x 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 (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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