Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon R9 370X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6500 XT Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 173% (2815MHz vs 1030MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (107W vs 180W)
Radeon R9 370X Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+118%
5765
Radeon R9 370X
2637
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Aug 2015
Navi II
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
980 MHz
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
1030 MHz
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
24
1024
Shading Units
1280
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.96 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.40 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.637 TFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
164.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
107W
TDP
180W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
Trinidad
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
Trinidad XT
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
