AMD Radeon R6 M340DX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R6 M340DX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M340DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 955 MHz vs 235 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 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	955 MHz vs 235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R6 M340DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Name	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 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		9
PassMark - G2D Mark		166

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R6 M340DX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Jet	NV31 A1
Launch date	12 December 2015	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1072	1070
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	955 MHz	235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	704
Transistor count	1,040 million	80 million
Texture fill rate		940 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
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		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz