Radeon R5 340 OEM vs HD Graphics 5600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking589not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.13no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2Oland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192384
Core clock speed300 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate25.2018.72
Floating-point processing power0.4032 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs38
TMUs2424

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data145 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1150 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36.8 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 5 May 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 65 Watt

HD Graphics 5600 has a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

R5 340 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5600 and Radeon R5 340 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel HD Graphics 5600
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