Radeon R5 340X OEM vs GeForce GTX 260

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

117 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 260

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 260
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock1000 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs8vs28
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTX 260
TDP65 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better