Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GTX 970
Summary
Radeon R9 370
100%
GeForce GTX 970
202%
Relative performance
Radeon R9 370
100%
GeForce GTX 970
266%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 970 |
| 166% higher gaming 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970
The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) | vs | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 1664 |
| Compute Units | 24 | vs | 13 |
| Core clock | 925 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 56 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 104 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 370 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 148 watts |
| Release Date | 5 May 2015 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
Radeon R9 370
31.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
78.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
179.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
2496.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon R9 370
7790
GeForce GTX 970
15750
Points (higher is better)
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
Radeon R9 370
30
GeForce GTX 970
63
FPS (higher is better)
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
Radeon R9 370
20
GeForce GTX 970
42
FPS (higher is better)
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
Radeon R9 370
5
GeForce GTX 970
19
FPS (higher is better)