Riva TNT2 Ultra 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)Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code nameTrinidadNV5 B5
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)15 March 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 $299

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 cores1280no data
Core clock speed980 MHz150 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,800 million15 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Wattno data
Texture fill rate82.400.3
Floating-point processing power2.637 TFLOPSno data
ROPs322
TMUs802

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 x16AGP 4x
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB32 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s2.928 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 VGA, 2x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)6.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2015 15 March 1999
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 250 nm

R9 370X has an age advantage of 16 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 792.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 370X and Riva TNT2 Ultra. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 370X
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