Radeon R7 350 vs ATI HD 5970

Place in the ranking	587	601
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.36	no data
Power efficiency	1.40	7.07
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Hemlock	Cape Verde
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	18 November 2009 (15 years ago)	6 July 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	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	1600	512
Core clock speed	725 MHz	800 MHz
Number of transistors	2,154 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	294 Watt	55 Watt
Texture fill rate	58.00	25.60
Floating-point processing power	2.32 TFLOPS	0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	16
TMUs	80	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	305 mm	168 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth	128.0 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-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

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	5.92	5.58
Recency	18 November 2009	6 July 2016
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	294 Watt	55 Watt

ATI HD 5970 has a 6.1% higher aggregate performance score.

R7 350, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 434.5% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon R7 350.

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