AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +33%

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Bonaire

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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