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Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The Radeon R7 370 2G makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 50176 (28%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (more or less 136%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 84560 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 22240 (71%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R7 370 2G Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2015 October 2019
Code Name Trinidad Navi 14 XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 975 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 5600 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 110 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 179200 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 62400 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 31200 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1408
Texture Mapping Units 64 88
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 2080 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 ×16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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