AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1030MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +55%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

24

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Trinidad

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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