Radeon R7 260 vs Radeon R7 350 OEM

Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260
Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 350 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 260

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 260Radeon R7 350 OEM
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire PRO)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders768vs384
Compute Units12vs6
Core clock1000 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs48vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 260Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 260Radeon R7 350 OEM
TDP95 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date17 Dec 2013vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better