RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell vs Radeon R9 370
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 420 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 7.59 | no data |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) |
| GPU code name | Trinidad | GB203 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Workstation |
| Release date | 5 May 2015 (9 years ago) | 18 March 2025 (recently) |
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 cores | 1280 | 10496 |
| Core clock speed | 925 MHz | 1590 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 975 MHz | 2617 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 2,800 million | 45,600 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 110 Watt | 200 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 78.00 | 858.4 |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.496 TFLOPS | 54.94 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 32 | 112 |
| TMUs | 80 | 328 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 328 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 82 |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Length | 221 mm | 267 mm |
| Width | 2-slot | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 16-pin |
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 type | GDDR5 | GDDR7 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1400 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | 896.0 GB/s |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | 4x DisplayPort 2.1b |
| HDMI | + | - |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | 1.4 |
| CUDA | - | 12.0 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 5 May 2015 | 18 March 2025 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 32 GB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 110 Watt | 200 Watt |
R9 370 has 81.8% lower power consumption.
RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 370 and RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon R9 370 is a desktop card while RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell is a workstation one.
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