AMD Radeon R9 370 Hippo2 Full Height 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card 


This video card was sold by HP as part number 818419-001.  It is working properly in Windows (see last 3 photos).  It has not been tested for gaming.  It would be perfect for a multimedia PC.

Drivers are available directly through the AMD website.  Please read below for installation instructions, as they are legacy drivers (2024 drivers will not work with this card).  PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO MANUALLY INSTALL SOFTWARE.  The previous customer lacked the competence to install the drivers.  He returned the item by lying to eBay and saying that the card is either fake (it is not) or broken (not true either).  We have tested everything again and confirmed that the drivers work properly.

It only requires 1 PCI-E connector!  The single fan design allows it to fit into smaller cases.  The R9 series is the predecessor to the RX series (e.g., RX 470, RX 580, etc.).  This card is considered the last best 6-pin GPU made by AMD.

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Trinidad
GPU Variant
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
Density
13.2M / mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Chip Package
FCBGA-1737

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 5th, 2015
Generation
Pirate Islands
(R9 300)
Predecessor
Volcanic Islands
Successor
Arctic Islands
Production
End-of-life
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
925 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
5.6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size
2 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
Bandwidth
179.2 GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1280
TMUs
80
ROPs
32
Compute Units
24
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
78.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.496 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
156.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
221 mm
8.7 inches
Width
111 mm
4.4 inches
TDP
110 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

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All items are sourced from reliable vendors.

No box or accessories are included.  Due to abuses of the past return policy, sold as-is with no returns.

Free shipping!  Available only in the continental United States.


Driver installation instructions (photos provided):

Download the AMD Radeon 22.6.1 package for this card from the AMD website but do not install it yet.

Remove all previous AMD GPU drivers or AMD software.  The best software for cleaning the files is called "DDU" and is free for download from the internet.

Shut down the computer after everything has been removed.  Install the card.  Disconnect the wired or wireless connection.

Reboot the computer.  Again, do NOT connect to the internet.  Do NOT allow Windows to auto-install drivers for the card, as it will misidentify the card as a "R9 200" series card.

Install the Radeon 22.6.1 software like you usually would, and let it fail. What we actually want are the folders that will be created in C:\AMD.

Open Device Manager. Look for a GPU Adapter called " Windows Basic Display Driver". Right-Click and choose "Update Drivers". Choose "Browse my computer for drivers".  In the next window, select "Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer".

From the next window, click on "Have Disk...".  Point it towards:

"C:\AMD\Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-2020-22.6.1-Win10-Win11-64Bit-LegacyASICs-June23-2022-LEGACY\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF".

The "Update Drivers" box will now show all of the drivers in the Radeon 22.6.1 package.  Scroll down and select "AMD Radeon (TM) R9 370 Series".  Click on "Next".  A warning box will appear - click on "Yes", and it will install the drivers.  The card will now appear correctly in Device Manager.  After that, restart.

Once you are back in Windows, go to:

"C:\AMD\Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-2020-22.6.1-Win10-Win11-64Bit-LegacyASICs-June23-2022-LEGACY\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF\B381983"

In there, you should find a "ccc2_install.exe". Run it, and it will install the Adrenalin Software. Close the window when installation has completed.

Go the the Start Menu and launch "AMD Settings".  The Radeon Adrenalin software will start.