AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 370X AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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 3 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (180W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1050MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +63%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jun 2012

Pirate Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Tahiti

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

180W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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