Radeon R5 340X OEM vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

51 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 550 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 550 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 340X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 340X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock1000 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs8vs24
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP65 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better