Radeon R7 370 vs R9 390 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated411
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data6.65
Power efficiencyno data7.28
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGrenadaTrinidad
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date3 September 2015 (9 years ago)18 June 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 $149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25601024
Core clock speed1000 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data975 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate160.062.40
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS1.997 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs16064

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data152 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pin1 x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz975 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s179.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity-+
Number of Eyefinity displaysno data6
HDMI++
DisplayPort support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-+
CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+
TrueAudio-+
VCE-+
DDMA audiono data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)DirectX® 12
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.131+
Mantle-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2015 18 June 2015
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 110 Watt

R9 390 X2 has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

R7 370, on the other hand, has 427.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 X2 and Radeon R7 370. We've got no test results to judge.


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