NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R7 370

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 370 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

2494 points

236% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

17 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

190% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1505 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23431 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

24521 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

22055 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19292 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

975 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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

11120% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

150 W

10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

149% significantly higher pixel rate

31.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

149% significantly higher texture rate

62.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

149% significantly better floating point performance

2.00 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

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

177th of 586

286th 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

4.4

GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 370 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 370 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 addition, the Radeon R7 370 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Radeon R7 370.