AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 736 MHz
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 768 vs 288
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3911 vs 3372
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3911 vs 3372
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 9664 vs 3322
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 9664 vs 3322
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 June 2015 vs 14 May 2011
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 736 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 288
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 vs 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 vs 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 vs 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 vs 3322

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

  • 3.4x more memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
  • 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27378 vs 10008
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2879 vs 2609
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2879 vs 2609
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 27378 vs 10008
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2879 vs 2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2879 vs 2609

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
10008
27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
3372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3322
Name AMD Radeon R9 350 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 10008 27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2609 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2609 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 3322
PassMark - G2D Mark 447
PassMark - G3D Mark 1572

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 350 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Tobago Fermi 2.0
Launch date 12 June 2015 14 May 2011
Place in performance rating 601 600
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name GF114

Technical info

Core clock speed 925 MHz 736 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines 768 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 150 Watt
Floating-point performance 847.9 gflops
Texture fill rate 35.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2 x DisplayPort, DVI 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.3 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 91.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) 3828 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)