AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370X

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

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

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +2%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Dec 2010

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

24

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Cayman

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

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

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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