AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
Around 69% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 666 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 666 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Geekbench - OpenCL	9926
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		38
PassMark - G2D Mark		300

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Curie
Launch date	12 June 2015	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	585	582
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		NV44 A2
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt
Texture fill rate		1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		75 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
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)