Radeon HD 5530 vs Radeon R9 370X

Radeon HD 5530
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 5530
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5530

161 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370X .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5530Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameCedar (Cedar XTX)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders80vs1280
Compute Units2vs24
Core clock650 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5530Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5530Radeon R9 370X
TDP19 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date17 Mar 2011vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5530
    9.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5530
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better