Radeon HD 5730 vs Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Radeon HD 5730
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5730
Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5730

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8350 OEM

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5730 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5730

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5730

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5730Radeon HD 8350 OEM
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsCedar ()
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs292 million
Shaders400vs80
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock775 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs20vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5730Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5730Radeon HD 8350 OEM
TDP64 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date26 Feb 2011vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5730
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5730
    15.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5730
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    10.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5730
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better