Radeon R7 350 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Place in the ranking	510	603
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.70	no data
Power efficiency	2.68	6.96
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GF110	Cape Verde
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	29 November 2011 (13 years ago)	6 July 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$289	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	448	512
Core clock speed	732 MHz	800 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	55 Watt
Texture fill rate	40.99	25.60
Floating-point processing power	1.312 TFLOPS	0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs	40	16
TMUs	56	32

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	168 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	72 GB/s

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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.23	5.59
Recency	29 November 2011	6 July 2016
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	55 Watt

GTX 560 Ti 448 has a 47.2% higher aggregate performance score.

R7 350, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 281.8% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 350 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.