GeForce GTX 555 OEM vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

GeForce GTX 555 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GTX 555 OEM
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 555 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 360 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 360 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 555 OEMRadeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameGF114 ()vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders288vs768
Compute Units6vs12
Core clock736 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs48vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 555 OEMRadeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed957 MHz
3828 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 555 OEMRadeon R9 360 OEM
TDP150 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date14 May 2011vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 555 OEM
    8.83 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 555 OEM
    35.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 555 OEM
    91.90 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 555 OEM
    847.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better