AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 8800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 51% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 612 MHz
6x more pipelines: 768 vs 128
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 171 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 1080 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 2 May 2007
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 612 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 171 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 1080 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
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		643
PassMark - G2D Mark		252

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Tesla
Launch date	12 June 2015	2 May 2007
Place in performance rating	614	618
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		G80
Launch price (MSRP)		$829
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	612 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768	128
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	171 Watt
CUDA cores		612
Floating-point performance		387.1 gflops
Texture fill rate		39.2 billion / sec
Transistor count		681 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		270 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-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	103.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
SLI