Radeon R7 350X OEM vs Radeon R7 260X

Radeon R7 350X OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350X OEM
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 350X OEM

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 260X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 350X OEMRadeon R7 260X
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs896
Compute Units6vs14
Core clock1000 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 350X OEMRadeon R7 260X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 350X OEMRadeon R7 260X
TDP65 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    32.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better