AMD Radeon HD 7340 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7340 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7340

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 50 vs 43
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 153 vs 123
  • Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 862 vs 449
  • Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 862 vs 449
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1467 vs 1397
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1467 vs 1397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 May 2012 vs 17 April 2007
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 50 vs 43
PassMark - G3D Mark 153 vs 123
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 862 vs 449
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 862 vs 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1467 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1467 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

  • Around 3% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 523 MHz
Core clock speed 540 MHz vs 523 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7340
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
50
43
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
153
123
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
862
449
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
862
449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1467
1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1467
1397
Name AMD Radeon HD 7340 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 312
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 312
PassMark - G2D Mark 50 43
PassMark - G3D Mark 153 123
Geekbench - OpenCL 359
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 862 449
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 862 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1467 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1467 1397

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7340 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla
Code name Zacate G84
Launch date 1 May 2012 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $552.69 $159
Place in performance rating 1621 1624
Price now $552.69
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 0.45

Technical info

Boost clock speed 680 MHz
Core clock speed 523 MHz 540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 80 32
Floating-point performance 76.16 gflops
Texture fill rate 8.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt
Transistor count 289 million

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

Technologies

SLI