Graphics card comparison
Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GTX 660
AMD
Radeon R9 370
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 5 May 2015
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 660
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 6 Sep 2012
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon R9 370114%
- GeForce GTX 660100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the Radeon R9 370
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Around 14% higher average synthetic performance.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the GeForce GTX 660
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon R9 370
The Radeon R9 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 660 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) | GK106 (GK106-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | 960 |
| Compute Units | 24 | 5 |
| Core clock | 925 MHz | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 24 |
| TMUs | 80 | 80 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 660 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 660 |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | 140 watts |
| Release Date | 5 May 2015 | 6 Sep 2012 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon R9 37031.20 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 66019.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon R9 37078.00 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 66078.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon R9 370179.20 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 660144.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon R9 3702496.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 6601882.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon R9 3707790
- GeForce GTX 6606800
Points (higher is better)