AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370 1024SP +278%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

4

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

R680

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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