Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon HD 6850 X2

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
Radeon HD 6850 X2
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2011
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 6850 X2
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders1280vs960
Compute Units24vs12
Core clock925 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 6850 X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 6850 X2
TDP110 wattsvs254 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs19 Sep 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 X2
    51.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 X2
    76.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 X2
    268.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850 X2
    3072.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better