Radeon R7 350X OEM vs GeForce GTS 450

Radeon R7 350X OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350X OEM
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 350X OEM

41 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 350X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 350X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 350X OEMGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock1000 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 350X OEMGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 350X OEMGeForce GTS 450
TDP65 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    32.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better