AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)