AMD Radeon R9 370 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare AMD Radeon R9 370 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 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

807 points

816 points

1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

9 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24591 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26499 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

25257 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26499 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

950 MHz

980 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1032 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

179.2 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

140 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.2 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

78 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.50 TFLOPS

25% slightly better floating point performance

1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

33% slightly more shading units

960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

279th of 586

276th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon R9 370 vs GeForce GTX 660 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 660 beats the Radeon R9 370 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 660 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 660 also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 370 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 GeForce GTX 660 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the Radeon R9 370 at 150 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 660 is faster than the Radeon R9 370.