Radeon HD 8350 OEM vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8350 OEM
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8350 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameCedar ()vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders80vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock650 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8350 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8350 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP19 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    10.70 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8350 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better