Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R7 370

Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R7 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%
  • Radeon R7 370
    131%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 31% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 260XRadeon R7 370
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire XTX)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders896vs1024
Compute Units14vs16
Core clock1100 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs56vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R7 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R7 370
TDP115 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 370
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260
  • Radeon R7 370
    8210

Points (higher is better)