AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 640SP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Lower TDP (55W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 350 640SP

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +220%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

32

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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