AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 97% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 69 Watt
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1894 vs 738
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 242
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 April 2018 vs 2 February 2010
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 69 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1894 vs 738
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 vs 242

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

  • Around 83% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3974 vs 3352
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3974 vs 3352
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 550 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3974 vs 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3974 vs 3352

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1894
738
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
355
242
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
3974
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
3974
Name AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1894 738
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 242
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 176.928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.666
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.603
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 135.437
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352 3974
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 3974
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 862
Geekbench - OpenCL 11231

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name Raven GT215
Launch date 23 April 2018 2 February 2010
Place in performance rating 958 955
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 69 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 727 million
Floating-point performance 257.28 gflops
Pipelines 96
Texture fill rate 17.6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 168 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1700 MHz
Memory type GDDR3