Radeon R3 Graphics vs GeForce GTS 350M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1091not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.59no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGT215Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96128
Core clock speed500 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors727 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate16.004.800
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs84
TMUs328

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-IIIGP
Widthno dataIGP
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsDisplayPortLVDSHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGANo outputs
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.3
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 15 Watt

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 86.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 350M and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 350M is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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