GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R9 370

GeForce GTX 480
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 480
Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 480
    100%
  • Radeon R9 370
    136%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 480

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 36% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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

GeForce GTX 480Radeon R9 370
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-375-A3)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders480vs1280
Compute Units15vs24
Core clock701 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs60vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 480Radeon R9 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed924 MHz
3696 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 480Radeon R9 370
TDP250 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    21.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 480
    42.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 480
    177.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 480
    1345.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 480
    5700
  • Radeon R9 370
    7790

Points (higher is better)