AMD Radeon R5 340 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 340 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

241 points
13% slightly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
2 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon R5 340 and the GeForce GT 730M? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5498 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3437 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5434 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3269 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4578 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3524 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

36.8 GB/s
155% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
33 W
96% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s
8% slightly higher pixel rate
5.75 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s
23.01 Gigatexels/s
22% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
32
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

403rd of 586
424th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon R5 340 vs GeForce GT 730M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 730M graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 340 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon R5 340 at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 730M over the Radeon R5 340.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons