Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs Radeon R9 380X

Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Radeon R9 380X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2015
Radeon R9 380X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380X

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 8970 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 8970 OEMRadeon R9 380X
GPU NameTahiti (Tahiti XT)vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size352 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders2048vs2048
Compute Units32vs32
Core clock925 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8970 OEMRadeon R9 380X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
vs1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8970 OEMRadeon R9 380X
TDP250 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs19 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    29.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    118.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    124.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    264.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    182.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    3789.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380X
    3973.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better