AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs AMD Radeon R7 370

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AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP AMD Radeon R7 370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1071MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (60W vs 110W)

AMD Radeon R7 370 's Advantages

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

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 370 +45%

1.997 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon R7 370

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2015

Polaris

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Trinidad

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

110W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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