AMD Radeon R9 370 vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 370 and ATI Radeon X1900 GT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 61% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 11.3x more texture fill rate: 78 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.7x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 32.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4722 vs 146
  • Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 781 vs 409
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 78 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4722 vs 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 781 vs 409

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 GT

  • Around 47% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 110 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 110 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 370
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4722
146
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
781
409
Name AMD Radeon R9 370 ATI Radeon X1900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 4722 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 781 409
Geekbench - OpenCL 75346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 64.576
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 336.491
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6096
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6096
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 370 ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Trinidad R580
Launch date 5 May 2015 1 May 2006
Place in performance rating 406 386
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 975 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,496 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 78 GTexel / s 6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 221 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3