Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R7 340 OEM

Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R7 340 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 340 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 340 OEM

138 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R7 340 OEM
GPU NameCypress (Cypress XT)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1600vs384
Compute Units20vs6
Core clock850 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R7 340 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5870Radeon R7 340 OEM
TDP188 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date23 Sep 2009vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    17.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    560.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better