AMD Radeon R9 370 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (110W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370

2.496 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +19%

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Nov 2012

Pirate Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

24

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

78.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

2.496 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

156.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Tahiti

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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