GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950Radeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-250-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders768vs768
Compute Units6vs12
Core clock1024 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950Radeon R9 360 OEM
TDP90 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date20 Aug 2015vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better