Radeon R9 370: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 12.19% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 370 sales 5 May 2015. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 179.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 221 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 110 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 370: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 371 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 1.75 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Trinidad | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 5 May 2015 (8 years ago) | |
| Current price | $325 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
Radeon R9 370's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 370's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 925 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 975 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,800 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 110 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 78.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2,496 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 370 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 221 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 370: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5600 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 370. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 370, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 370. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
Send your test results of Radeon R9 370.
Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon R9 370 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 45 |
Relative performance
Radeon R9 370's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
Conclusion
Radeon R9 370 is a middle-level video card based on an outdated GCN 1.0 core and released only in OEM variant, so it never was actually sold directly to end users.
Some video FPS benchmarks:
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R9 370 is GeForce GTX 760, which is faster by 1% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R9 370:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R9 370 according to our statistics.
