Radeon R5 340X OEM vs Radeon HD 6970

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Radeon HD 6970
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6970

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

185 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6970

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6970

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6970

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 6970
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsCayman (Cayman XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders384vs1536
Compute Units6vs24
Core clock1000 MHzvs880 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 6970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 6970
TDP65 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs14 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6970
    28.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6970
    84.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6970
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6970
    2703.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better