AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 340X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +448%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon R5 340X 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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

6

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Oland

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

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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