AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 340 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 36.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +351%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Dec 2010

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

36.80GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

24

-

384

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

18.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

599.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Cayman

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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