AMD Radeon R9 350 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 350

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 743 MHz
2.4x more pipelines: 768 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 215 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 743 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 215 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Around 47% higher memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Memory clock speed	1656 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664
PassMark - G3D Mark		660
PassMark - G2D Mark		397

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	TeraScale
Launch date	12 June 2015	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	600	375
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		R600
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	743 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768	320
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	215 Watt
Floating-point performance		475.5 gflops
Texture fill rate		11.89 GTexel / s
Transistor count		720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	106.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)