Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 670 vs Radeon R9 370X
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 670
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 10 May 2012
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VS
AMD
Radeon R9 370X
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 27 Aug 2015
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Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 670
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon R9 370X
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 670 | Radeon R9 370X |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (GK104-325-A2) | Trinidad (Trinidad XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 1344 | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 7 | 24 |
| Core clock | 915 MHz | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| TMUs | 112 | 80 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 670 | Radeon R9 370X |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 670 | Radeon R9 370X |
|---|
| TDP | 170 watts | 180 watts |
| Release Date | 10 May 2012 | 27 Aug 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 67025.60 GP/s
- Radeon R9 370X33.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 670102.00 GT/s
- Radeon R9 370X82.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 670192.00 GB/s
- Radeon R9 370X179.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 6702460.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R9 370X2636.80 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better