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Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The Radeon R7 370 2G features a GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with a core clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 is 28% quicker than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot (about 136%) more effective at texture 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 using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by far. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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