AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 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 FX 5950 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 95% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 475 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 950 MHz

Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) vs 950 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 74 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	74 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Geekbench - OpenCL	9870
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		59
PassMark - G2D Mark		274

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Rankine
Launch date	12 June 2015	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	610	609
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		NV38 A1
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	74 Watt
Texture fill rate		1.9 GTexel / s
Transistor count		135 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	AGP 8x
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12	9.0a
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	950 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)