AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 and AMD Radeon HD 6970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 880 MHz
  • 437.9x more texture fill rate: 37.00 GTexel/s vs 84.5 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Launch date 2015 vs 14 December 2010
Boost clock speed 925 MHz vs 880 MHz
Texture fill rate 37.00 GTexel/s vs 84.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970

  • 2.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 640
  • Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
  • Around 86% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 432 vs 232
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2839 vs 1024
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1536 vs 640
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 432 vs 232
PassMark - G3D Mark 2839 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
232
432
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1024
2839
Name AMD Radeon R9 A375 AMD Radeon HD 6970
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 432
PassMark - G3D Mark 1024 2839
Geekbench - OpenCL 35739
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 920.398
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 273.175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 A375 AMD Radeon HD 6970

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 3
Code name Venus Cayman
Launch date 2015 14 December 2010
Place in performance rating 664 662
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $369
Price now $94.99
Value for money (0-100) 48.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz 880 MHz
Compute units 10
Core clock speed 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines 640 1536
Pixel fill rate 14.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 37.00 GTexel/s 84.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1500 million 2,640 million
Floating-point performance 2,703.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 550 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 11
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 5.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) 1375 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire