AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +35%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Trinidad

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

3x 8-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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