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.

 

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 509 506
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