Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon R7 370

Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon R7 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6850
    100%
  • Radeon R7 370
    215%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 115% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 370

The Radeon R7 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6850Radeon R7 370
GPU NameBarts (Barts PRO)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders960vs1024
Compute Units12vs16
Core clock775 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6850Radeon R7 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6850Radeon R7 370
TDP127 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 370
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6850
    3810
  • Radeon R7 370
    8210

Points (higher is better)