GeForce GTX 745 OEM vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 360 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 745 OEMRadeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-300-A2)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs768
Compute Units3vs12
Core clock1033 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 745 OEMRadeon R9 360 OEM
TDP55 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better