Radeon R5 340X OEM vs GeForce GTS 250

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 250 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 250

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 250
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsG92B (G92-428-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs754 million
Shaders384vs128
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock1000 MHzvs702 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTS 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTS 250
TDP65 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs4 Mar 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better