R7 370 vs R9 270 GAMING!???

[Taha Siddiqui]

Hi everyone! I want to upgrade my graphics card and don't know which one to get r9 270 vs r7 370. It would be very nice if you could provide me with some benchmarks or something in gaming. I game on 900x1600 pixel simple panel and I mostly play games like far cry, battlefield, shadow of mordor, assassin's creed, watch dogs and I will play new games that are coming out as well as gta V on this rig. Here are the parts of my build
Intel Pentium G3258
Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H
EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze
4GB Memory will upgrade soon
So which gpu should I go for, THANKS

 

[DeathRabit]

R7 370 is better but if you can grab R9 270X

http://pclab.pl/art64399-22.html

 

[captaincharisma]

Considering your CPU WILL bottleneck with either of those you should go for the R7. that is unless you plan to upgrade the CPU eventually too

 

[Taha Siddiqui]

Considering your CPU WILL bottleneck with either of those you should go for the R7. that is unless you plan to upgrade the CPU eventually too

No the CPU would not bottleneck the gpu, this is the new intel pentium anniversary edition and is pretty good budget cpu.

 

[Taha Siddiqui]

R7 370 is better but if you can grab R9 270X

http://pclab.pl/art64399-22.html

I don't know why the r9 270 is expensive but slow and yet it is amd's r9 series???

 

[DeathRabit]

R9 270 is older R7 370 is new GPU that is replacing it on this same price range.

 

[doxtor]

R7 370 is the same rebranded chip as R7 270 with some new energy effective methods enabled

 

[Taha Siddiqui]

Ok thanks

 

[DeathRabit]

R7 370 is the same rebranded chip as R7 270 with some new energy effective methods enabled

You are wrong
Re-brand list:

Radeon R9 290X - Hawaii - Radeon R9 390X
Radeon R9 285 -Tonga - Radeon R9 380
Radeon R7 265 - Pitcairn -Radeon R7 370
Radeon R7 260 - Bonaire - Radeon R7 360
Source:http://www.anandtech.com/show/9387/amd-radeon-300-series/2

 

[doxtor]

DeathRabit I told about GPU called Pitcairn you may find out it at r7 370 inside as well as 7850 & 7870 & r9 270 got

r7 370 built on the same GPU as 7870 & r9 270 called Pitcairn
r7 370 got 1024 stream processors as 7850 got 5+ years ago r9 270 got 1280 stream processors
memory clock & memory bus are the same at r9 270 & r7 370

so amd took forgotten 7850, rebranded it to r7 370 & selling it )

personally i got some amd park 7790 r7 260 7850 7870 r9 270 7950 7970 r9 280x r9 290 r9 290x majority of them are working 24h-365days for 2+ years

 

[FearfulSPARTAN]

Pitcairn is not 5 plus years old but everything else they said is correct, basically until 16nm gpus launch amd has refreshed their products again with higher clock speeds

 

[doxtor]

well, the exact release date of 7850 was March 15, 2012 https://youtu.be/xMnM5KCWDMI

 

[DeathRabit]

R9 270 have 1280 processors R7 370 have 1024 * they are a bit different http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem#

 

[FearfulSPARTAN]

well, the exact release date of 7850 was March 15, 2012 https://youtu.be/xMnM5KCWDMI

I know that but that would mean its just under 3 1/2 years old. Its pretty old but not thaaat old.