Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon R7 350X OEM

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon R7 350X OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350X OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 350X OEM
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders2048vs384
Compute Units32vs6
Core clock926 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs128vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 350X OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 350X OEM
TDP120 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    32.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better