Radeon Vega 7 vs R7 M350

Place in the ranking	772	531
Place by popularity	not in top-100	18
Power efficiency	5.95	11.40
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Meso	Cezanne
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	5 May 2015 (9 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 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	448
Compute units	6	no data
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	1,550 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	24.36	53.20
Floating-point processing power	0.7795 TFLOPS	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	8
TMUs	24	28

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	IGP
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	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Eyefinity	+	-

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 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5	6.4
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	Not Listed	2.1
Vulkan	-	1.2
Mantle	+	-

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	8−9 −175%	22 +175%
1440p	12−14 −167%	32 +167%
4K	6−7 −167%	16 +167%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.03	7.47
Recency	5 May 2015	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	45 Watt

R7 M350 has 28.6% lower power consumption.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 146.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 M350 in performance tests.

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