Radeon R5 340X OEM vs Radeon HD 5870

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 5870
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders384vs1600
Compute Units6vs20
Core clock1000 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 5870
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 5870
TDP65 wattsvs188 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs23 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better