AMD Radeon R7 370 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2015
Jan 2013
Generation
Pirate Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
925 MHz
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Boost Clock
975 MHz
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Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1050 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
134.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
16
20
Shading Units
1024
1600
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Trinidad
Cypress
GPU Variant
Trinidad PRO(215-0870020)
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
110W
175W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
1,517
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
758
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