AMD Radeon R6 M340DX vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R6 M340DX and ATI Radeon X850 PRO 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 X850 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M340DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 88% higher core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 507 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	12 December 2015 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 507 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R6 M340DX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Name	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
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		73
PassMark - G2D Mark		157

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	R400
Code name	Jet	R480
Launch date	12 December 2015	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	1087	1062
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	507 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	704
Transistor count	1,040 million	160 million
Texture fill rate		6.08 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		33.3 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1040 MHz