GeForce RTX 5070 vs Radeon R9 370X

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameTrinidadGB205
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores12806400
Core clock speed980 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate82.40504.0
Floating-point processing power2.637 TFLOPS32.26 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s120.0 GB/s

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 DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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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-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 180 Watt 220 Watt

R9 370X has 22.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 5070, on the other hand, has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 370X and GeForce RTX 5070. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 370X
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