NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 360

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 360 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 360

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 1782.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2151.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

320% significantly better overall score

538 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

11 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17603 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17970 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16200 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

15685 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

Identical

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

100 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

292% significantly higher pixel rate

16.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

143% significantly higher texture rate

50.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

143% significantly better floating point performance

1.61 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

116% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

116% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

319th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 360 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 360 in gaming.

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R7 360 both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 R7 360 has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon R7 360.