Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GTX 960

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 370
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    133%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon R9 370
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    129%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 960

29% higher gaming performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370GeForce GTX 960
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1280vs1024
Compute Units24vs8
Core clock925 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370GeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370GeForce GTX 960
TDP110 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 370
    7790
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64

  • Radeon R9 370
    30
  • GeForce GTX 960
    31

FPS (higher is better)

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64

  • Radeon R9 370
    20
  • GeForce GTX 960
    21

FPS (higher is better)

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64

  • Radeon R9 370
    5
  • GeForce GTX 960
    9

FPS (higher is better)