GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 370X

GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 370X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-300-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1024vs1280
Compute Units8vs24
Core clock1127 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960Radeon R9 370X
TDP120 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date22 Jan 2015vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better