Radeon R9 370 1024SP vs GeForce GTX 950

Radeon R9 370 1024SP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 370 1024SP
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370 1024SP .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370 1024SPGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1024vs768
Compute Units16vs6
Core clock925 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370 1024SPGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370 1024SPGeForce GTX 950
TDP150 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date12 Jun 2015vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    31.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    62.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    179.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    1996.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better