AMD Radeon R7 370 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon R7 370

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 370 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 370 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (975MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (110W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 370

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +67%

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 370

1507

Radeon R9 280 +33%

2009

Radeon R7 370

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

28

-

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Tahiti

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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