NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R5 340

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 340, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

1935% significantly better overall score

241 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

893% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5498 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

1006% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5434 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

1323% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

120% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

122% significantly higher boost clock speed

780 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

770% significantly higher memory bandwidth

36.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

65 W

176% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

1677% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

1381% significantly higher texture rate

18.72 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

566% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

566% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

402nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R5 340 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 340 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon R5 340 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Radeon R5 340.