GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 470
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1206 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 370X
RX 470
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
2,048
+60.0%
Shaders
1,280
2,048
+60.0%
TMUs
80
128
+60.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
24
32
+33.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
980 MHz
926 MHz
Boost Clock
1030 MHz
1206 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
5.6 Gbps effective
1650 MHz
6.6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
211.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
32.96 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
82.40 GTexel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.637 TFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
164.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
308.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
180 W
120 W
TDP (W)
180
120
-33.3%
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Trinidad
Ellesmere
Generation
Pirate Islands
(R9 300)
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
5,700 million
Die Size
212 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
13.2M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
221 mm
8.7 inches
240 mm
9.4 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
95 mm
3.7 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
179 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Volcanic Islands
Pirate Islands
Successor
Arctic Islands
Polaris