AMD Radeon R9 350 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and ATI Radeon X1600 PRO 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 X1600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 780 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 1 October 2007
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 780 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 41 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
Geekbench - OpenCL	9892
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		99
PassMark - G2D Mark		273

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	R500
Launch date	12 June 2015	1 October 2007
Place in performance rating	614	610
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		RV530
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	41 Watt
Texture fill rate		2 GTexel / s
Transistor count		157 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	12.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	780 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)