AMD Radeon R9 350 vs AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and AMD Radeon RX 540 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 RX 540 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10008 vs 9416
Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3911 vs 2296
Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3911 vs 2296

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	768 vs 512
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008 vs 9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911 vs 2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911 vs 2296

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 925 MHz
Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 12 June 2015
Core clock speed	1219 MHz vs 925 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10008

9416

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3911

2296

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3911

2296

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008	9416
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911	2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911	2296
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664
PassMark - G2D Mark		368
PassMark - G3D Mark		1857

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	GCN 3.0
Launch date	12 June 2015	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	601	623
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Code name		Cape Verde
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		3rd Gen
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	1219 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		1219 MHz
Compute units		8
Floating-point performance		1.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		19.50 GP/s
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		512
Texture fill rate		39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Units		32
Transistor count		1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12
OpenGL	4.3	4.5
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	96 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)