NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 340 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 27.20GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 340 OEM

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +1786%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 340 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 300

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

27.20GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

257.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

69W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Hawaii

GT215-301-A3

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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