AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 49.4 billion / sec
• Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512
• Around 2% better floating-point performance: 1,613 gflops vs 1,581.1 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 244 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB
• 3.2x more memory clock speed: 6500 MHz vs 2004 MHz (4008 data rate)
• Around 97% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 63.718 vs 32.378
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 171.258 vs 132.363

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

• Around 54% higher core clock speed: 1544 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4566 vs 3032
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 460
• Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15511 vs 14269
• Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 40.048 vs 39.283
• Around 7% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 872.651 vs 815.354
• Around 26% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.338 vs 3.437
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5953 vs 4468
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3717 vs 3667
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3340
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5953 vs 4468
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3717 vs 3667
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3340

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3032 4566
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	460 476
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	14269 15511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	39.283 40.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	815.354 872.651
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.437 4.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	63.718 32.378
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	171.258 132.363
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4468 5953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3667 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3340 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4468 5953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3667 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3340 3357

Compare specifications (specs)