GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon R7 360

GeForce GTX 870M
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 870M
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    112%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 870M

Around 12% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 870M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 870M

The GeForce GTX 870M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 870MRadeon R7 360
GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GT-A2)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1344vs768
Compute Units7vs12
Core clock941 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs112vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 870MRadeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 870MRadeon R7 360
TDP100 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    26.35 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    105.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    120.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    2529.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 870M
    7200
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)