Radeon R5 340X OEM vs GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon R5 340X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 340X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce 9800 GTX
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsG92 (G92-420-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs754 million
Shaders384vs128
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock1000 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce 9800 GTX
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce 9800 GTX
TDP65 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs28 Mar 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better