NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 360

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon R7 360

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA 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 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 360 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (100W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +143%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon R7 360

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 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

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/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

100W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x 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

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