Synthetic Benchmarks

To just jump right into things I started testing the two R7 370’s in Crossfire by running through our synthetic benchmarks. Typically this is where I compare how cards perform and then I focus on the overall gaming experience in the gaming benchmarks. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the 370’s in Crossfire, their performance individually was good enough to play most games at 1080p but typically cards like that when run in Crossfire or SLI run into some limitations due to things like their overall memory size or bandwidth that prevent them from completely scaling or comparing with single card setups. In 3DMark Fire Strike using the performance benchmark the cards in crossfire fell right in between a single GTX 780 and a single GTX 780 Ti. Considering just how good both of those cards are even today that is good company to be in. This still does have things like a GTX 970 up above the duo. Basically they fall in between the R9 390 and the R9 380 in AMDs current product line. Surprisingly the extreme and ultra tests don’t have any of those scaling issues I mentioned before. The higher memory bit rate and 4 gigs of ram in each card seem to help handle the higher resolutions properly.

The results in the Heaven Benchmark 4.0 are discouraging to see though. There is obviously no crossfire support so the end result are results slightly less than an individual 370. In Valley the numbers are better with the duo getting close to the numbers that the GTX 780 puts up as well as the R9 390’s.