Radeon RX 580G vs R5 340X OEM

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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameOlandPolaris 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)15 October 2018 (6 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 cores3842304
Core clock speed900 MHz1257 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz1330 MHz
Number of transistors950 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate21.60191.5
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS6.129 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs24144

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 3.0 x16
Length145 mm241 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s256.0 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_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 15 October 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 185 Watt

R5 340X OEM has 184.6% lower power consumption.

RX 580G, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 340X OEM and Radeon RX 580G. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM
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