AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later

Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 17 March 2014

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Around 24% higher core clock speed: 902 MHz vs 730 MHz
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 936 MHz vs 780 MHz
2x more texture fill rate: 37.44 GTexel / s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
2x better floating-point performance: 1,198 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 551 vs 359
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1050 vs 1000

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	902 MHz vs 730 MHz
Boost clock speed	936 MHz vs 780 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.44 GTexel / s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,198 gflops vs 599.0 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	551 vs 359
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050 vs 1000

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

551

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

1050

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	551
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	1050
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Maxwell
Code name	Oland	GM107
Launch date	5 May 2015	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	510	513
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	936 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	902 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops	1,198 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	640
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s	37.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,870 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3