Radeon R7 370 and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 370 vs Radeon HD 6970
Radeon R7 370
4656
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon R7 370
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Trinidad (Pitcairn)
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2015
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
880 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,997 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
62.40
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
975 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-