AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 340 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (925MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +453%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2015

Sea Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

6

-

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Oland

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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