RTX A5500 Mobile vs Radeon R9 370 1024SP

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated78
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.01
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTrinidadGA103
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date12 June 2015 (9 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10247424
Core clock speed925 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million22,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate62.40348.0
Floating-point processing power1.997 TFLOPS22.27 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs64232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 June 2015 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 165 Watt

R9 370 1024SP has 10% lower power consumption.

RTX A5500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 370 1024SP and RTX A5500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 370 1024SP is a desktop card while RTX A5500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP
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