GeForce GT 630 OEM vs Radeon R7 M350

Place in the ranking	772	942
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	5.93	2.29
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Meso	GK107
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	5 May 2015 (9 years ago)	24 April 2012 (12 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 cores	384	192
Compute units	6	no data
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	875 MHz
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,550 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	24.36	14.00
Floating-point processing power	0.7795 TFLOPS	0.336 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	16
TMUs	24	16

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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	145 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	891 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	28.51 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	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity	+	-
HDMI	-	+

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync	+	-
HD3D	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
DualGraphics	+	-
ZeroCore	+	-
Switchable graphics	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 12	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.5	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	Not Listed	1.2
Vulkan	-	1.1.126
Mantle	+	-
CUDA	-	3.0

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	3.03	1.67
Recency	5 May 2015	24 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	50 Watt

R7 M350 has a 81.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 M350 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 630 OEM in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 M350 is a notebook card while GeForce GT 630 OEM is a desktop one.

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