AMD Radeon R9 370 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 370 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 1054.00

$ 349.00

$ 705.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

807 points

2605 points

222% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS

56 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

40 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

48 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

22 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24591 points

48577 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26499 points

33781 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

25257 points

46502 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26499 points

53890 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

950 MHz

1607 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1845 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

179.2 GB/s

224 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

130 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.2 Gigapixels/s

59 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

78 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

108% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.50 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

108% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1408

10% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 586

171st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 370 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon R9 370 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is better than the Radeon R9 370.