NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 370

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 370 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 370

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 689.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1054.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

507% significantly better overall score

807 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

24591 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26499 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

25257 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

26499 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

69% significantly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

975 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

78% significantly higher memory bandwidth

179.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

255% significantly higher pixel rate

31.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

255% significantly higher texture rate

78 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

255% significantly better floating point performance

2.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

100% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

280th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 370 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 370 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R9 370 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than the Radeon R9 370.