GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R7 360

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660
    106%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R7 360
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders960vs768
Compute Units5vs12
Core clock980 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R7 360
TDP140 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)