Radeon R5 340X OEM vs Radeon R9 290X

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Radeon R9 290X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 290X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

225 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 290X

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 290X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon R9 290X
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsHawaii (Hawaii XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders384vs2816
Compute Units6vs44
Core clock1000 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs64
TMUs24vs176

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon R9 290X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon R9 290X
TDP65 wattsvs290 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs24 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290X
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290X
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290X
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290X
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better