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

VS

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 340X OEM

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +448%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

32

-

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Tahiti

Oland XT (215-0837000)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

352 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

2

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

3

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

4

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

5

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

6

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

7

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

8

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

9

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs MTT S30

10

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early