AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 340 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +532%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Dec 2011

Pirate Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

32

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

18.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

599.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

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

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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