Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R9 380

Radeon HD 4350
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4350
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4350

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 380

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 FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 380

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4350Radeon R9 380
GPU NameRV710 ()vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders80vs1792
Compute Units1vs28
Core clock600 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4350Radeon R9 380
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4350Radeon R9 380
TDP20 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2008vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4350
    2.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4350
    4.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4350
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4350
    96.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better