AMD Radeon R6 M340DX vs ATI Radeon 9800 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R6 M340DX and ATI Radeon 9800 XT 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R6 M340DX

ATI Radeon 9800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M340DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 412 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm

Launch date	12 December 2015 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R6 M340DX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 XT

Name	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	ATI Radeon 9800 XT
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1025
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1025
Geekbench - OpenCL	17639
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1940
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5475
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5475
PassMark - G3D Mark		57
PassMark - G2D Mark		160

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rage 9
Code name	Jet	R360
Launch date	12 December 2015	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1087	1055
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	704
Transistor count	1,040 million	117 million
Texture fill rate		3.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		23.36 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		730 MHz