AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 730 MHz
2.3x more boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 780 MHz
9011.8x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 78% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42817 vs 24076

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 730 MHz
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz vs 780 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	42817 vs 24076

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 125 Watt
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42817

24076

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	42817	24076
PassMark - G2D Mark		359
PassMark - G3D Mark		1000

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Oland
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	507	509
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz	780 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	730 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	384
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	18.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		599.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3