GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		69 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 560 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GT 340 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 60288 (111%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is a lot (about 327%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57600 (327%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be a lot (more or less 327%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 340 1GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (327%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.