Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which features a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 2075 (59%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (120%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 2G is 56% faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 64512 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be quite a bit (approximately 77%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27200 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (77%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.