AMD Radeon R6 M340DX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R6 M340DX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M340DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
4.2x more core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 140 nm

Launch date	12 December 2015 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 140 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R6 M340DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Name	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
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		8
PassMark - G2D Mark		152

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Jet	NV34 B1
Launch date	12 December 2015	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1092	1089
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	704
Transistor count	1,040 million	45 million
Texture fill rate		920 MTexel / s
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
Length		152 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		200 MHz