GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R9 370X

CORE STATE Trinidad

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1030 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

25,893

18,991

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

18,516

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R9 370X

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,280 0.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,280 0.0%

TMUs

80

80 0.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

24

—

Clocks

Base Clock

980 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz 5.6 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.637 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

164.8 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

180 W

—

TDP (W)

180

—

Suggested PSU

450 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Trinidad

GM204

Generation

Pirate Islands (R9 300)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

5,200 million

Die Size

212 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

221 mm 8.7 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Volcanic Islands

GeForce 800M

Successor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 10 Mobile

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