Radeon R7 350X OEM and Radeon HD 8970 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R7 350X OEM
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Oland
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2015
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
806.4 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.20
118.4
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131