Radeon R9 370 and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R9 370
Radeon HD 8950 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Trinidad
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2015
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,496 gflops
3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
78.00
103.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5600 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131