Radeon R7 350X OEM vs Iris Graphics 540

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking738not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency15.73no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameSkylake GT3eOland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)5 May 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 cores384384
Core clock speed300 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1050 MHz
Number of transistors189 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate48.0025.20
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPS0.8064 TFLOPS
ROPs68
TMUs4824

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data32 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan1.31.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 5 May 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 65 Watt

Iris Graphics 540 has an age advantage of 3 months, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Graphics 540 and Radeon R7 350X OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Graphics 540
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