Radeon R5 340X OEM vs GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9600 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9600 GT
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsG94 (G94-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs505 million
Shaders384vs64
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock1000 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce 9600 GT
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce 9600 GT
TDP65 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs21 Feb 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better