GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 370X

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370X

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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 370X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R9 370X
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units8vs24
Core clock823 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R9 370X
TDP170 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better