AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370X

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1183MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +117%

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Dec 2018

Pirate Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

8

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Lexa

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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