GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs Radeon R9 370

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    210%
  • Radeon R9 370
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 110% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

The GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon R9 370
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-300-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1152vs1280
Compute Units9vs24
Core clock1506 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs72vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon R9 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GBRadeon R9 370
TDP120 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date18 Aug 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    16380
  • Radeon R9 370
    7790

Points (higher is better)