Radeon R5 340X OEM vs HD 7310

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameZacateOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2012 (12 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 cores80384
Core clock speed500 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1050 MHz
Number of transistors450 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate4.00021.60
Floating-point processing power0.08 gflops0.6912 gflops
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 5 May 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 65 Watt

HD 7310 has 261.1% lower power consumption.

R5 340X OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7310 and Radeon R5 340X OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7310 is a notebook card while Radeon R5 340X OEM is a desktop one.


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