AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370X

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 Clock has increased by 11% (1030MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +25%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

28

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Tahiti

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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