Radeon R7 350 vs RX Vega M GL

Place in the ranking	452	597
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	10.46	7.03
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Polaris 22	Cape Verde
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 February 2018 (6 years ago)	6 July 2016 (8 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	1280	512
Core clock speed	931 MHz	800 MHz
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,000 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	55 Watt
Texture fill rate	80.88	25.60
Floating-point processing power	2.588 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	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	168 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	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	1024 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	72 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
High Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

24−27
+85.7%

14−16

−85.7%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

24−27
+85.7%

14−16

−85.7%

4K
High Preset

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

7−8
+133%

3−4

−133%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.82	5.58
Recency	1 February 2018	6 July 2016
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	55 Watt

RX Vega M GL has a 76% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R7 350, on the other hand, has 18.2% lower power consumption.

The Radeon RX Vega M GL is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 350 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega M GL is a notebook card while Radeon R7 350 is a desktop one.

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