AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 340 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1340MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +930%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

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Radeon R7 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2015

Polaris

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

6

2304

Shading Units

384

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Oland

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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