Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary vs R5 340 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated87
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data42.25
Power efficiencyno data13.30
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameOlandNavi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3842560
Core clock speed730 MHz1680 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHz1980 MHz
Number of transistors950 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate18.72316.8
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPS10.14 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs24160

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth36.8 GB/s448.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 7 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 225 Watt

R5 340 OEM has 246.2% lower power consumption.

RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 340 OEM and Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary. We've got no test results to judge.


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