AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +36%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

20

1024

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Cypress

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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