In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition are significantly better than the AMD Radeon R7 350.

The R7 260X has a 30 MHz higher core clock speed and 32 more Texture Mapping Units than the Radeon R7 350. This results in the R7 260X providing 33.7 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 260X has a 30 MHz higher core clock speed and 8 more Render Output Units than the Radeon R7 350. This results in the R7 260X providing 8.5 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon R7 350 was released over a year more recently than the R7 260X, and so the Radeon R7 350 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 350 has 1024 MB more video memory than the R7 260X, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the R7 260X has superior memory performance.

The R7 260X has 22.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Radeon R7 350, which means that the memory performance of the R7 260X is slightly better than the Radeon R7 350.

The Radeon R7 350 has 384 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition has 896. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon R7 350 is 343 and the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 784. The R7 260X having 441 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R7 260X delivers a significantly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the Radeon R7 350.

The Radeon R7 350 requires 65 Watts to run and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition requires 105 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the Radeon R7 350 and a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X. The R7 260X requires 40 Watts more than the Radeon R7 350 to run. The difference is significant enough that the R7 260X may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the Radeon R7 350.