Radeon R9 380 vs Radeon R9 370X

Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 380

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 380Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameAntigua (Antigua PRO)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size366 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors5,000 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1792vs1280
Compute Units28vs24
Core clock970 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs112vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 380Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 380Radeon R9 370X
TDP190 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date18 Jun 2015vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better