Radeon R7 370X’s specifications reveal it’s just a rebranded R7 270X

Alongside their new Fiji cards, the Radeon R9 Fury X2, R9 Fury X, R9 Fury and R9 Nano, AMD rebranded a number of their 200 series cards as the 300 series, with little more than tweaked power management.

For example, their Radeon R9 390X is very nearly the same card as the R9 290X. And now there’s news of the R7 370X, and it comes courtesy of the exact same rebrand treatment.

Thanks to a comparison made by site Expreview, it was revealed that the R7 370X in almost every way a R7 270X.

To be honest, it’s a little disappointing. Many assumed that the remaining X variants in the 300 series, the R7 360X, R7 370X and R9 380X, would involve a little more than simple reworks. But alas, that’s not the case.

Or perhaps that was the plan, but AMD has had a change of heart after NVIDIA’s announcement of the GTX 950, the card AMD’s R7 370X will likely compete with.

AMD Radeon R9 370X vs. Radeon R9 270X – GpuZ. Image courtesy of Expreview.

The Trinidad XT-based R7 370X is based on the R7 270X’s Pitcairn XT GPU, which means 2.8 billion transistors, 1280 stream processors, 80 TMUs and 32 ROPs.

The R7 370X itself will sport a clock speed of 1180 MHz and a memory clock of 1400 MHz, which means 179.2 GB/s bandwidth thanks to its 256-bit bus. However, that’s based on an overclocked model, so the card may have the exact same clock speeds as the R7 270X: 1000 MHz (base) and 1050 MHz (boost).

It’s far from exciting stuff.

Graphics Card	GPU	CU / SP	GPU/Memory Clock Speed	Memory	Interface	Memory Bandwidth	TDP	MSRP

Graphics Card	GPU	CU / SP	GPU/Memory Clock Speed	Memory	Interface	Memory Bandwidth	TDP	MSRP
R9 390X	Hawaii XT	44 / 2816	1050/1500 MHz	8GB GDDR5	512bit	384 GB/s	275W	$429
R9 390	Hawaii Pro	40 / 2560	1000/1500 MHz	8GB GDDR5	512bit	384 GB/s	275W	$329
R9 380	Tonga Pro	28 / 1792	970/1425 MHz	4GB GDDR5	256bit	182.4 GB/s	190W	$199+
R9 380	Tonga Pro	28 / 1792	970/1425 MHz	2GB GDDR5	256bit	182.4 GB/s	190W	$199
R9 370X	Trinidad XT	20 / 1280	1000/1400 MHz	4 GB GDDR5	256-bit	179.2 GB/s	~150W	$179+
R9 370X	Trinidad XT	20 / 1280	1000/1400 MHz	2 GB GDDR5	256-bit	179.2 GB/s	~150W	$179
R7 370	Trinidad Pro	16 / 1024	975/1400MHz	4GB GDDR5	256bit	179.2 GB/s	110W	$149+
R7 370	Trindad Pro	16 / 1024	975/1400MHz	2GB GDDR5	256bit	179.2 GB/s	110W	$149
R7 360	Tobago Pro	12 / 768	1050/1625 MHz	2GB GDDR5	128bit	104 GB/s	100W	$109

Given that the Radeon R7 370 is priced between R2, 600 and R3, 400, we expect the R7 370X to start at around R3, 000 and end at R3, 700 or so. So it should fall neatly in range of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 950.

We expect the GTX 950 to be the better performer, but thanks to the newest Catalyst drivers, you can Crossfire connect your R7 370X with your R7 270X, should you own one, and get a nice performance boost.

Just be warned that this newest card from AMD, like the R7 370, is actually twice rebranded and so almost the same GPU that can be found in the HD 7850 from 2012 – that means GCN 1.0.

That means that the card will in all likelihood have no VCE (Video Codec Engine), TrueAudio or FreeSync support.