AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1030MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 254W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 370X
+71%
2.637 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850 X2
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Sep 2011
Pirate Islands
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
-
1030 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
960
80
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
82.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.637 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
164.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
254W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Trinidad
GPU Name
Barts
Trinidad XT
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
255 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
