AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM and ATI Radeon X1950 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 27% higher core clock speed: 730 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 18.72 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 66 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 30% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 359 vs 318
  • 8.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1000 vs 113
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 1 October 2006
Core clock speed 730 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 18.72 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 66 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 359 vs 318
PassMark - G3D Mark 1000 vs 113

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
359
318
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1000
113
Name AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark 359 318
PassMark - G3D Mark 1000 113
Geekbench - OpenCL 24076

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Oland RV570
Launch date 5 May 2015 1 October 2006
Place in performance rating 509 512
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 780 MHz
Core clock speed 730 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 18.72 GTexel / s 6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 66 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 330 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 44.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1380 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3