Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon R9 370
Summary
Radeon HD 6870
100%
Radeon R9 370
171%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370 |
| 41 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 71% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370
The Radeon R9 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6870 | | Radeon R9 370 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Barts (Barts XT) | vs | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,700 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 1120 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 14 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 900 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6870 | | Radeon R9 370 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6870 | | Radeon R9 370 | |
|---|
| TDP | 151 watts | vs | 110 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Oct 2010 | vs | 5 May 2015 |
Radeon HD 6870
28.80 GP/s
Radeon R9 370
31.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
50.40 GT/s
Radeon R9 370
78.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
134.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 370
179.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
2016.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 370
2496.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6870
4540
Radeon R9 370
7790
Points (higher is better)