AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +3%

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Mar 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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

24

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Antilles

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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