NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R9 M360

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 M360 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

961% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

9392 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

212% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10902 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

8277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7905 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 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

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

345% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

313% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

224% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224% 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

421st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 May

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R9 M360 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 M360 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon R9 M360.