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GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon HD 3850 512MB

Intro

The GeForce GT 340 1GB uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 550 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 850 MHz on this particular model. It features 96 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 3850 512MB, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 668 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 828 MHz on this model. It features 320(64x5) SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB 69 Watts
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 75 Watts
Difference: 6 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 340 1GB, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB 54400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 52992 MB/sec
Difference: 1408 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 340 1GB is quite a bit (approximately 65%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB 17600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 10688 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 6912 (65%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3850 512MB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 512MB 10688 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6288 (143%)

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 1GB Radeon HD 3850 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2010 Nov 19, 2007
Code Name GT215 RV670 PRO
Memory 1024 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 668 MHz
Memory Speed 3400 MHz 1656 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 69 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 54400 MB/sec 52992 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17600 Mtexels/sec 10688 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 10688 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 32 16
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 727 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.3 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 340 1GB

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Radeon HD 3850 512MB

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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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