AMD Radeon R9 350 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and ATI Radeon HD 5970 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3911 vs 3454
  • Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3911 vs 3454
  • 3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 9664 vs 3213
  • 3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 9664 vs 3213
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 June 2015 vs 18 November 2009
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 vs 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 vs 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 vs 3213
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 vs 3213

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5970

  • 4.2x more pipelines: 2x 1600 vs 768
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
  • Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3977 vs 2609
  • Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3977 vs 2609
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2x 1600 vs 768
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3977 vs 2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3977 vs 2609

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5970

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
3454
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3213
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3213
Name AMD Radeon R9 350 ATI Radeon HD 5970
Geekbench - OpenCL 10008
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2609 3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2609 3977
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 3454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 3213
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 3213
PassMark - G3D Mark 2301
PassMark - G2D Mark 419
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 350 ATI Radeon HD 5970

Essentials

Architecture Tobago TeraScale 2
Launch date 12 June 2015 18 November 2009
Place in performance rating 601 603
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name Hemlock
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $699

Technical info

Core clock speed 925 MHz 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines 768 2x 1600
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 300 Watt
Boost clock speed 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 2,320.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 58.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count 2,154 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2 x DisplayPort, DVI 2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays 4
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 305 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 11
OpenGL 4.3 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 2x 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
AMD Eyefinity