AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD FireStream 9370
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+55%
4.096 TFLOPS
FireStream 9370
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jun 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
1600
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
225W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Cypress
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
