Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon R7 360 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R7 360
Radeon HD 7970
5405
Radeon R7 360
3186
Radeon HD 7970
Radeon R7 360
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Tobago
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
June 2015
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
1,613 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
768
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
50.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
+
TrueAudio
-
+
VCE
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-