GeForce GT 340 OEM vs VIA Castle Rock

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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
Architectureno dataTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameCLE266GT215
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 January 2003 (21 year ago)2 February 2010 (14 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 cores396
Core clock speed2 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistorsno data727 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data69 Watt
Texture fill rateno data17.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2573 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 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 dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data850 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data27.2 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data11.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2003 2 February 2010

GT 340 OEM has an age advantage of 7 years.

We couldn't decide between VIA Castle Rock and GeForce GT 340 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that VIA Castle Rock is a notebook card while GeForce GT 340 OEM is a desktop one.


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