Radeon HD 8350 OEM vs Radeon HD 7790

Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Radeon HD 7790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7790

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8350 OEM

66 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7790 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 7790

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7790

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8350 OEMRadeon HD 7790
GPU NameCedar ()vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders80vs896
Compute Units2vs14
Core clock650 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8350 OEMRadeon HD 7790
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8350 OEMRadeon HD 7790
TDP19 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs22 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    56.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    10.70 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7790
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7790
    1792.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better