AMD FireStream 9370 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9370
2.64 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X
+55%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Oct 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Tahiti
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
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
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
