AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money76.61no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 September 2015 (8 years old)5 May 2015 (8 years old)
Current price$301 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096384
Core clock speed1126 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors10400 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.72
Floating-point performanceno data599.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon R5 340 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz4600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno data1.2.131
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 September 2015 5 May 2015
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 65 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon R5 340 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R5 340 OEM is a desktop one.


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