GeForce GTS 360M vs Radeon R7 (Carrizo)

Place in the ranking	887	932
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.98	3.10
Architecture	GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	Carrizo	GT215
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 June 2015 (9 years ago)	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	96
Core clock speed	no data	550 MHz
Boost clock speed	800 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2410 Million	727 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12-35 Watt	38 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	17.60
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.2757 TFLOPS
Gigaflops	no data	413
ROPs	no data	8
TMUs	no data	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized	large
Bus support	no data	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	no data	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	-	+
MXM Type	no data	MXM 3.0 Type-B

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	no data	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	no data	1 GB
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	57.6 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	no data	Single Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA
HDMI	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

no data

8.0

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (FL 12_0)	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	no data	4.1
OpenGL	no data	2.1
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	-	N/A
CUDA	-	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 (Carrizo) 2.00
+18.3%

GTS 360M 1.69

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

R7 (Carrizo) 5200

GTS 360M 5522
+6.2%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	21−24 +16.7%	18 −16.7%
Full HD	10 −130%	23 +130%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

+0%

4−5

+0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Battlefield 5	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
Far Cry 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Forza Horizon 4	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%
Hitman 3	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18 +6.3%	16−18 −6.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +33.3%	3−4 −33.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +11.1%	9−10 −11.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +2.9%	30−35 −2.9%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Battlefield 5	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
Far Cry 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +25%	4−5 −25%
Forza Horizon 4	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%
Hitman 3	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18 +6.3%	16−18 −6.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +33.3%	3−4 −33.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +11.1%	9−10 −11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14 +16.7%	12−14 −16.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +2.9%	30−35 −2.9%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
Far Cry 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Forza Horizon 4	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%
Hitman 3	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18 +6.3%	16−18 −6.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +11.1%	9−10 −11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 +0%	12−14 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +2.9%	30−35 −2.9%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5
+33.3%

3−4

−33.3%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Hitman 3	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 +22.2%	9−10 −22.2%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6
+25%

4−5

−25%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

+0%

1−2

+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

+0%

3−4

+0%

This is how R7 (Carrizo) and GTS 360M compete in popular games:

R7 (Carrizo) is 17% faster in 900p
GTS 360M is 130% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the R7 (Carrizo) is 100% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

R7 (Carrizo) is ahead in 27 tests (53%)
there's a draw in 24 tests (47%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.00	1.69
Recency	4 June 2015	7 January 2010
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	38 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has a 18.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 216.7% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTS 360M in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.