Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GT 440

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 370
    649%
  • GeForce GT 440
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 549% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370

The Radeon R9 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370GeForce GT 440
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs585 million
Shaders1280vs96
Compute Units24vs2
Core clock925 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370GeForce GT 440
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370GeForce GT 440
TDP110 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs1 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 370
    7790
  • GeForce GT 440
    1200

Points (higher is better)