Radeon R9 290 and Radeon R7 370 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R7 370
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon R7 370
4656
Radeon R9 290
Radeon R7 370
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Trinidad (Pitcairn)
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
May 2015
Bus support
-
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
Boost clock speed
-
975 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
1,997 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
62.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
975 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
+
VCE
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-