Radeon Picasso vs R9 370

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	397	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.74	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Trinidad	Picasso
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	5 May 2015 (9 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	640
Core clock speed	925 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	975 MHz	1301 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	78.00	52.04
Floating-point processing power	2.496 TFLOPS	1.665 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	80	40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Length	221 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	10 Watt

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