ATI Radeon 9800 XT vs R5 340X OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1424
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.17
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameOlandR360
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed900 MHz412 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate21.603.296
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs88
TMUs248

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 x8AGP 8x
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz365 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s23.36 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 60 Watt

R5 340X OEM has an age advantage of 11 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9800 XT, on the other hand, has 8.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 340X OEM and Radeon 9800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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