GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 360

GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960
    162%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

Around 62% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960Radeon R7 360
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-300-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1024vs768
Compute Units8vs12
Core clock1127 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960Radeon R7 360
TDP120 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date22 Jan 2015vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)