GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 360

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    100%
  • Radeon R7 360
    120%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 360

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360

The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MRadeon R7 360
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs768
Compute Units5vs12
Core clock1097 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MRadeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MRadeon R7 360
TDP75 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)