AMD Radeon R9 370 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R9 370

AMD 2015-05
G

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD 2014-06

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2015
Jun 2014
Generation
Pirate Islands
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
925 MHz
-
Boost Clock
975 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1350 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
345.6GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
24
44
Shading Units
1280
2816
TMUs
80
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
78.00 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.496 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
156.0 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Trinidad
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Trinidad PRO(215-0870020)
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
438 mm²

Board Design

TDP
110W
580W
Suggested PSU
300 W
950 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3