AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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.

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 359 vs 320
9.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1000 vs 104

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	384 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	359 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000 vs 104

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

320

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

104

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	320
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	104
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0
Code name	Oland	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	5 May 2015	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	506	504
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	384	24
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1