GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1178MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (85W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+143%
3920
Radeon R9 360 OEM
1613
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
1664
Shading Units
768
104
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.80 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.613 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
100.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
85W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Tobago
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tobago PRO
(215-0875010)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
