Graphics card comparison
Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GTX 960
AMD
Radeon R9 370
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 5 May 2015
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 960
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 22 Jan 2015
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon R9 370100%
- GeForce GTX 960133%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- Radeon R9 370100%
- GeForce GTX 960129%
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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960
- 29% 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce GTX 960
The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 960 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | 1024 |
| Compute Units | 24 | 8 |
| Core clock | 925 MHz | 1127 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | 64 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 960 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 370 | GeForce GTX 960 |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 5 May 2015 | 22 Jan 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon R9 37031.20 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 96036.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon R9 37078.00 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 96072.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon R9 370179.20 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 960112.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon R9 3702496.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 9602308.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon R9 3707790
- GeForce GTX 96010380
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 96031
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 96021
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 9609
FPS (higher is better)