GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this 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

The Radeon RX 560 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 340 1GB overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (more or less 327%) more effective at 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 will be a lot (approximately 327%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 340 1GB, and also able to handle 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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.