AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD Radeon R7 370

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 370 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 370 +48%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

Radeon R7 370

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jun 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

800

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Trinidad

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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