Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Radeon HD 4350
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4350
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4350

155 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 8860 OEM .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8860 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4350Radeon HD 8860 OEM
GPU NameRV710 ()vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders80vs1280
Compute Units1vs20
Core clock600 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4350Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4350Radeon HD 8860 OEM
TDP20 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2008vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4350
    2.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4350
    4.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    74.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4350
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4350
    96.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    2368.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better