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    GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

    GeForce GTX 970
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 19 Sep 2014
    GeForce GTX 970
    Radeon R9 360 OEM
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 5 May 2015
    Radeon R9 360 OEM

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    63 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 .
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970Radeon R9 360 OEM
    GPU NameGM204 (GM204-200-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs160 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs2,080 million
    Shaders1664vs768
    Compute Units13vs12
    Core clock1050 MHzvs1000 MHz
    ROPs56vs16
    TMUs104vs48

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970Radeon R9 360 OEM
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1753 MHz
    7012 MHz effective    		vs1625 MHz
    6500 MHz effective
    Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 970Radeon R9 360 OEM
    TDP148 wattsvs85 watts
    Release Date19 Sep 2014vs5 May 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970
      58.80 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 360 OEM
      16.00 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970
      109.20 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 360 OEM
      48.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 970
      224.40 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 360 OEM
      104.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 970
      3494.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 360 OEM
      1536.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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