OEM R9 370

[BenStocksMason]

hey, i was just wondering if anyone has heard of the AMD R9 370. 

 

I have had many discussions about this GPU and was looking for a wider spectrum of knowledge, as far as i know this card came from a friend whom had it in his MSI night blade prior to me getting this GPU i had seen a pre-build PC in PC world it was the Asus predator advertising 4K gaming. I have seen this GPU tagged as an R9 370 on the AMD website but many, many people still think its a R7 370 renamed. 

I cant find any decent reviews on my GPU so i don't know if its performing as well as it could in my system either. 

 

MY PC: 

Intel mobo

I5 760 @3.3Ghz LGA1165

RaM: 10 gb Kingston hyperX genesis

GPU: R9 370 (core overclocked to 1050 Mhz)

PSU: 750 watt Quad rail Powercooler semi-modular 

60GB SSD for OS

250+500+1000 GB HDD's for games etc.

 

its shoddy and odd but it cost me about £130 to build.   if anyone can help me find bench tests with PC specs of this GPU id be most grateful, but this topic is mostly about my GPU. am i right in saying its rare since i cant find another anywhere to buy ? 

 

Thanks ~ben 

[Sir Asvald]

16 minutes ago, BenStocksMason said:

hey, i was just wondering if anyone has heard of the AMD R9 370. 

 

I have had many discussions about this GPU and was looking for a wider spectrum of knowledge, as far as i know this card came from a friend whom had it in his MSI night blade prior to me getting this GPU i had seen a pre-build PC in PC world it was the Asus predator advertising 4K gaming. I have seen this GPU tagged as an R9 370 on the AMD website but many, many people still think its a R7 370 renamed. 

I cant find any decent reviews on my GPU so i don't know if its performing as well as it could in my system either. 

 

MY PC: 

Intel mobo

I5 760 @3.3Ghz LGA1165

RaM: 10 gb Kingston hyperX genesis

GPU: R9 370 (core overclocked to 1050 Mhz)

PSU: 750 watt Quad rail Powercooler semi-modular 

60GB SSD for OS

250+500+1000 GB HDD's for games etc.

 

its shoddy and odd but it cost me about £130 to build.   if anyone can help me find bench tests with PC specs of this GPU id be most grateful, but this topic is mostly about my GPU. am i right in saying its rare since i cant find another anywhere to buy ? 

 

Thanks ~ben 

To be honest, the R9 370 is a rubbish card. For an extra £48 to be precise, I would recommend getting the R9 380. 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Radeon-Nitro-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B016EY8JMG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1463188442&sr=8-2&keywords=r9+380

 

I'm also skeptical about your PSU. Never heard of it. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

the R9 370 is a rubbish card

while that is true, i think the processor is kinda holding it back a little.

i might be wrong lol.

[BenStocksMason]

I got the GPU for £90 from a friend. plus i have never actually seen this GPU for sale anywhere, my power supply is fine its been used for 5 years at least and still going strong, my system is nothing compared to what it was powering before. 

i would go for a R9 390 hands down, i just dont have the money for one atm. 

 

also i do believe my CPU is holding it back by quite abit but it was a £20 upgrade from an i3 550 haha

[LeStringMan]

11 minutes ago, BenStocksMason said:

I got the GPU for £90 from a friend. plus i have never actually seen this GPU for sale anywhere, my power supply is fine its been used for 5 years at least and still going strong, my system is nothing compared to what it was powering before. 

i would go for a R9 390 hands down, i just dont have the money for one atm. 

 

also i do believe my CPU is holding it back by quite abit but it was a £20 upgrade from an i3 550 haha

R9 370 is an oem version of the card found in prebuilts such as Dell or HP or whatever, which is why you never see an r9 370 for sell, it is identical to the R7 370 however. 

[BenStocksMason]

Do you mean identical in performance to the R7 370 ? because if you do i'm quite impressed as my previous GPU to this was a HD 7870 and this R9 370 wipes the floor with it performance wise in games.

 

[David_K]

Are you real? 

 

You wasted money on a rebranded+higher clocked HD7850 ? when you already own a 7870 that you can easily OC past 1GHz (to a 270 clocks)

 

Your 7870 is a 1280 Pitcrain core = R9 270/X or 370X, you just replaced it with a 1024sp pitcrain core = R7 265X/R7 370... return the 370 and bump the clocks on your 7870 and wait till polaris 10 is available.

 

 

[BenStocksMason]

Yes i am real. the HD 7870 had a previous owner before me this guy abused the card so it didn't perform as well. it hit 70-80 degrees in games and then i replaced the thermal paste with Arctic MX-4. go the temps back down, i did have it overclocked but not by much since it crashed out. also the 7870 was only a 2GB card where as the 370 is 4GB 

 

My brother currently runs a 7870 sapphire ed in his machine we have been playing the same games on the same settings, he has a Q94000 cpu and i have an i5 670 there's not much difference in performance tbf, he's on a asus gaming mobo and im running a crappy intel extreme standard mobo. so far my 370 has out performed the 7870 by miles. in rust he gets 40-48 FPS i get 90-102 FPS. Planetside he gets 70-78 FPS i get a straight 85 FPS. COD with medium settings since he's only 2GB he gets 80-90 FPS i get 140-148 FPS. for the benefit of the doubt we swapped cards and ran some tests, my 370 still came out on top. 

 

explain that if the 7870 is supposed to be better than the 370 ?