AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R7 370

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon R7 370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 370 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (110W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +182%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 370

1.997 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X +160%

3925

Radeon R7 370

1507

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon R7 370

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

16

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

110W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Trinidad

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 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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