R7 350 non-OEM model - what is it?

[VirtualLarry]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127763&ignorebbr=1

SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 350 DirectX 12 100385L 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card

• 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
• Core Clock 925 MHz
• 1 x DVI-D 1 x HDMI
• 512 Stream Processors
• PCI Express 3.0

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2682/radeon-r7-350-oem

If anyone knows of any reviews of the R7 350, or how it stacks up to a GT740 and a GTX950, I'm all ears.


TPU has an entry for an OEM R7 350, but they claim only 384 shader processors, and according to the Newegg blurb, this retail card has 512.

It also has 128-bit of GDDR5, 2GB of it, so I'm thinking that this isn't a bad card, for budget low-res (below 1080P) gaming?

Considering that GT730 cards are around the same price range, and GT740 cards more expensive, this seems like a deal if it's GCN 1.0 and still supported. (Yes, I know that Async Compute is disabled for GCN 1.0-based cards in the newest AMD drivers. Oh well.)

Edit: Or is this card just a retail refresh of the R7 250/250X GDDR5 version?

 

[cbn]

Virtual Larry that first link has R7 250.

However, I did find the link you are referring to:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202237

And the Sapphire web page does list it at 512sp @ 925 Mhz:

http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=FD3D6DD7-AE2A-408E-8C1F-FB273A9EC4A7&lang=eng

(So this is a GPU based on a cut down Cape Verde die.....just like the HD7750 was. However, the clocks here are 125 Mhz faster than the 800 MHz of HD7750 )

P.S. HD7750 GDDR5 was around the level of performance of GT 740/GTX 650.

 

[cbn]

Considering that GT730 cards are around the same price range, and GT740 cards more expensive, this seems like a deal if it's GCN 1.0 and still supported. (Yes, I know that Async Compute is disabled for GCN 1.0-based cards in the newest AMD drivers. Oh well.)

The Sapphire R7 350 will be faster than a GT730 GDDR5. However, it is a full size card.... not a low profile single slot like the PNY GT730 GDDR5.

With that mentioned, HD7750 GDDR5 was available as single slot low profile from Sapphire:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202002

 

[Valantar]

That's odd. Not a chip designation that exists according to AMD. Might it simply be a rebranded R7 250? Specs seem eerily similar (although clock speeds are slightly lower).

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-Radeon-...ress-3-0-HD-/381939994365?hash=item58ed65cefd

What about this one? It's an MSI R7 360 refurb, 2GB GDDR5 128-bit, 768SPs, 6-pin PCI-E power.