Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon R9 280X

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
Radeon R9 280X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 280X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 370
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    140%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 280X

Around 40% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 280X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280X

The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon R9 280X
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsTahiti (Tahiti XTL)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1280vs2048
Compute Units24vs32
Core clock925 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon R9 280X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370Radeon R9 280X
TDP110 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    109.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280X
    3482.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 370
    7790
  • Radeon R9 280X
    10960

Points (higher is better)