AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +35%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

24

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Antilles

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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