AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM and AMD Radeon R9 270 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 270

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 13 November 2013
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 780 MHz
4x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
4x better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 359
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 1000
3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74175 vs 24076

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	925 MHz vs 780 MHz
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	567 vs 359
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306 vs 1000
Geekbench - OpenCL	74175 vs 24076

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

567

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

4306

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

24076

74175

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 270
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	567
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	4306
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076	74175
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		261.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1603

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 270
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Oland	Curacao
Launch date	5 May 2015	13 November 2013
Place in performance rating	506	509
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$179
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	925 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops	2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1280
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s	74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	2,800 million
Stream Processors		1280
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		210 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)