AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 370X AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +3%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 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

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

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

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Cypress

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-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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