Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon HD 7850

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 370
    114%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 14% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370

The Radeon R9 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1280vs1024
Compute Units24vs16
Core clock925 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 7850
TDP110 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 370
    7790
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)