Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition vs Radeon R7 370

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Radeon R7 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    100%
  • Radeon R7 370
    196%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 96% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7770 GHz EditionRadeon R7 370
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders640vs1024
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock1000 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7770 GHz EditionRadeon R7 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7770 GHz EditionRadeon R7 370
TDP80 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date15 Feb 2012vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 370
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    4170
  • Radeon R7 370
    8210

Points (higher is better)