Graphics card comparison
Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GTX 950
AMD
Radeon R9 370
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 5 May 2015
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 950
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 20 Aug 2015
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon R9 370100%
- GeForce GTX 950108%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- Radeon R9 370104%
- GeForce GTX 950100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the GeForce GTX 950
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 950 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | 768 |
| Compute Units | 24 | 6 |
| Core clock | 925 MHz | 1024 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | 48 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 950 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 950 |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | 90 watts |
| Release Date | 5 May 2015 | 20 Aug 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon R9 37031.20 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 95032.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon R9 37078.00 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 95049.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon R9 370179.20 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 950105.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon R9 3702496.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 9501572.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon R9 3707790
- GeForce GTX 9508490
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
- Radeon R9 37030
- GeForce GTX 95028
FPS (higher is better)
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
- Radeon R9 37020
- GeForce GTX 95019
FPS (higher is better)
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
- Radeon R9 3705
- GeForce GTX 9505
FPS (higher is better)