Radeon HD 6350 vs Radeon R9 280
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6350 |
| 181 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6350 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar PRO) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO3) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 827 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6350 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6350 | | Radeon R9 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Feb 2011 | vs | 4 Mar 2014 |
Radeon HD 6350
2.60 GP/s
Radeon R9 280
29.86 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6350
5.20 GT/s
Radeon R9 280
104.50 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6350
6.40 GB/s
Radeon R9 280
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6350
104.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 280
3344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better