Radeon R7 360E vs GeForce GTX 660

Radeon R7 360E
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Dec 2015
Radeon R7 360E
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360E

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 360EGeForce GTX 660
GPU NameTobago (Tobago PRO)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders768vs960
Compute Units12vs5
Core clock1050 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 360EGeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 360EGeForce GTX 660
TDP75 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date30 Dec 2015vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 360E
    16.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 360E
    50.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 360E
    96.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 360E
    1612.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better