AMD Radeon R9 350 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and AMD Radeon R9 255 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 3% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3911 vs 3168
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3911 vs 3168
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 9664 vs 3346
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 9664 vs 3346
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 June 2015 vs 21 December 2013
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 900 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 512
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 vs 3168
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 vs 3168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 vs 3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 vs 3346

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • 4.1x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
  • 4.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 40722 vs 9870
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3112 vs 2609
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3112 vs 2609
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed 4600 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 40722 vs 9870
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3112 vs 2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3112 vs 2609

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9870
40722
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
3112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
3112
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
3168
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
3168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3346
Name AMD Radeon R9 350 AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 9870 40722
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2609 3112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2609 3112
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 3168
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 3168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 3346
PassMark - G2D Mark 388
PassMark - G3D Mark 1420

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 350 AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Tobago GCN 1.0
Launch date 12 June 2015 21 December 2013
Place in performance rating 610 612
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name Cape Verde

Technical info

Core clock speed 925 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines 768 512
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 65 Watt
Boost clock speed 930 MHz
Floating-point performance 952.3 gflops
Texture fill rate 29.76 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2 x DisplayPort, DVI No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

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 73.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) 4600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)