AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon R9 370X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 980 MHz
  • Around 71% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 1030 MHz
  • 2047.3x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 82.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 180 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 27 August 2015
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 980 MHz
Boost clock speed 1757 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s vs 82.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt vs 180 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370X

  • 3.2x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 370X

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon R9 370X
Geekbench - OpenCL 42529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.071
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1139.703
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.39
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 88.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 337.583
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon R9 370X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 14 Trinidad
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 27 August 2015
Place in performance rating 512 516
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $199

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1757 MHz 1030 MHz
Compute units 24
Core clock speed 1187 MHz 980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 1280
Pixel fill rate 56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s 82.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 180 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 2,800 million
Floating-point performance 2,637 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Width IGP
Length 221 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 179.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 5600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5