Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon R7 350 OEM

Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270
Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 350 OEM

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 270

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 270Radeon R7 350 OEM
GPU NameCuracao (Curacao PRO)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1280vs384
Compute Units20vs6
Core clock900 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 270Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 270Radeon R7 350 OEM
TDP150 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date13 Nov 2013vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better