Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon HD 6850 X2
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370 |
144 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 X2 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 X2 |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | | Radeon HD 6850 X2 | |
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GPU Name | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 1,700 million |
Shaders | 1280 | vs | 960 |
Compute Units | 24 | vs | 12 |
Core clock | 925 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 80 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | | Radeon HD 6850 X2 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
Memory Speed | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 370 | | Radeon HD 6850 X2 | |
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TDP | 110 watts | vs | 254 watts |
Release Date | 5 May 2015 | vs | 19 Sep 2011 |
Radeon R9 370
31.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850 X2
51.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
78.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850 X2
76.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
179.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850 X2
268.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
2496.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850 X2
3072.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better