GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 360 OEM

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1920vs768
Compute Units15vs12
Core clock1506 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs16
TMUs120vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R9 360 OEM
TDP150 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better