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GeForce GT 340 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The GeForce GT 340 has a GPU core speed of 550 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 850 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 96 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 69 Watts
Radeon RX 470 120 Watts
Difference: 51 Watts (74%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 340 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 211200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340 54400 MB/sec
Difference: 156800 (288%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a lot (approximately 573%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 340. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 17600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 100928 (573%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (about 573%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 340, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25232 (573%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 340 Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2010 August 2016
Code Name GT215 Polaris 10
Memory 512 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 69 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 2048
Texture Mapping Units 32 128
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 727 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 340

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Radeon RX 470

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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