AMD Radeon R9 350 vs AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 350

AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Around 27% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 730 MHz
2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
Around 68% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9926 vs 5924
Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3911 vs 3341
Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3911 vs 3341
2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 9664 vs 3355
2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 9664 vs 3355

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 730 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 384
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	9926 vs 5924
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911 vs 3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911 vs 3341
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664 vs 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664 vs 3355

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Launch date	30 June 2016 vs 12 June 2015
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9926

5924

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3911

3341

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3911

3341

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

9664

3355

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

9664

3355

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	9926	5924
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911	3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911	3341
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664	3355
PassMark - G2D Mark		370
PassMark - G3D Mark		1090

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	GCN 1.0
Launch date	12 June 2015	30 June 2016
Place in performance rating	585	699
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		Oland
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	730 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	50 Watt
Boost clock speed		780 MHz
Floating-point performance		599.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		18.72 GTexel / s
Transistor count		1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.3	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)