Radeon R7 370

The Radeon R7 370 sits at the bottom of the company's product line, based on the Pitcairn GPU, also known as Curacao. This is one of the oldest GPUs used in the Radeon 300 line, models such as the Radeon HD 7850 and R7 265 are based on a chip with exactly the same characteristics.

The Radeon R7 370 is based on a Pitcairn/Curacao/Trinidad chip that has been reduced in terms of the number of functional units. In this modification of the graphics processor, four computing devices are disabled (out of 20 computing devices, 16 remain active). This gives a total of 1024 stream processors instead of 1280 ALUs for the full version. The same applies to texture units: their number has been reduced from 80 TMUs to 64 TMUs, since each GCN unit has four texture units. In terms of the number of ROPs and memory controllers, these chips are the same, they have 32 ROPs and four 64-bit memory controllers, giving a common 256-bit bus.

The operating frequencies of the video card of the new Radeon R7 370 model are slightly higher than those of the R7 265, and even more so than the frequencies of the Radeon HD 7850. The graphics processor in this model received a frequency of 1050 MHz, and the video memory of the novelty operates at a frequency of 5.7 GHz. The use of fast GDDR5 memory gives a bandwidth of 182 GB / s, which is quite high for this price segment, which can have a positive effect when rendering at high resolutions. The memory capacity of this model can be 2 or 4 GB, the lower value is logical for a budget video card, and the upper one can help when using 4K monitors.

The newly released Radeon R7 370 graphics card supports all the same technologies as previous models based on the same GPU. We have repeatedly written about all the new technologies supported by AMD graphics chips in the corresponding reviews. In particular, the video card in question has support for the new Mantle graphics API, which helps to effectively use the hardware capabilities of AMD GPUs without being limited by the shortcomings of the existing graphics APIs: OpenGL and DirectX. True, after the imminent release of DirectX 12, this will no longer be a special advantage.

As for the performance of the new model, it can be up to 20% inferior to older models based on the same Pitcairn chip, which is explained by the different number of active GCN execution units. The additional four CUs give the older GPU greater theoretical peak math and texture sampling and filtering performance, although they are equal in ROP performance and video memory bandwidth.

Radeon R7 370 Specifications

This solution was aimed at budget gamers who wanted to get more or less tolerable performance for little money.