AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 350

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 13 March 2015
Pipelines	768 vs 384

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 925 MHz
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 95 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
3.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 32359 vs 10008

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 925 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359 vs 10008

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10008

32359

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 945A
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008	32359
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
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark		716
PassMark - G3D Mark		1852

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce 945A
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Maxwell
Launch date	12 June 2015	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	601	598
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		GM108
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	1072 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	33 Watt
Boost clock speed		1176 MHz
Floating-point performance		903.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		28.22 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.3	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)