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Those thinking the 370 is the successor to the 270 are going to be disappointed.ĪMD now has a sizable gap between the R7 370 and the R9 380 in their product line. Buyers may very well be more fixated on the 370 part of the name rather than the more critical R7/R9.
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Even with the speed increase, the 370 will likely still be slower than the R9 270 it sounds similar to. With 1024 SPUs (Stream Processing Units) across 16 CUs (Compute Units), the R7 370 is the successor to the 2012 HD 7850 and the R7 265 with a speed bump to 975Mhz core and memory bandwidth improved to 172.2 GB/s. This point is hammered home by the presence of a Crossfire finger, a requirement that GCN 1.1/1.2 forgoes.Īnother point is the branding for the card. These features are tied to GCN 1.1/1.2, meaning the 370 is GCN 1.0. However, VCE (Video Codec Engine), TrueAudio and the much vaunted FreeSync are all missing. As expected the up and coming APIs of DirectX® 12, OpenGL® 4.58, Vulkan™, Mantle and OpenCL™ 2.0 are all supported. The most important clue to the 370’s origin is the features or lack thereof the card supports.
AMD RADEON R7 370 SERIES
While most of the attention has been focused on Fury, the rest of the Rx 300 series have been rebrands. Rebranding is fine but 3 years later, it’s pushing it. Among all the cards AMD has launched so far, the R7 370 will be the sole member still running GCN 1.0., and has now been twice rebranded.
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One of the most surprising moves was the chip AMD chose to power the R7 370. With the reveal of AMD’s Rx 300 lineup at E3 today, more details about the specifications have been revealed.