AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 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 7800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 10 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
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 11 August 2005
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
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		244
PassMark - G2D Mark		273

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Curie
Launch date	12 June 2015	11 August 2005
Place in performance rating	601	594
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		G70
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Price now		$80
Value for money (0-100)		3.16
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	65 Watt
Texture fill rate		8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		302 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		226 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)