Radeon HD 5690 vs Radeon R9 370X

Radeon HD 5690
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5690
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5690

116 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5690Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders400vs1280
Compute Units5vs24
Core clock775 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs20vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5690Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5690Radeon R9 370X
TDP64 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2011vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5690
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5690
    15.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5690
    32.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5690
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better