Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
Radeon HD 8870 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 8870 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8870 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 8870 OEM
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1280vs1280
Compute Units24vs20
Core clock925 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon HD 8870 OEM
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 8870 OEM
TDP110 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better