AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 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 Quadro FX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 730 MHz vs 360 MHz
6.5x more texture fill rate: 18.72 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 359 vs 325
15.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1000 vs 64

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	730 MHz vs 360 MHz
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	359 vs 325
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000 vs 64

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

359

325

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1000

Name	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
PassMark - G2D Mark	359	325
PassMark - G3D Mark	1000	64
Geekbench - OpenCL	24076

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Oland	NV43 A2
Launch date	5 May 2015	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	508	506
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	360 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s	2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	146 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	None
Length		198 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3