AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jul 2011

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

14

-

1024

Shading Units

1120

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Barts

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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