AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 340X, 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

1929 points
731% significantly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41087 points
669% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5341 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42870 points
769% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4929 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41113 points
698% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5148 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47019 points
890% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4748 points

Specifications

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

224 GB/s
1300% significantly higher memory bandwidth
16 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
65 W
130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.81 Gigapixels/s
452% significantly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

159.2 Gigatexels/s
637% significantly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
433% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
433% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

213th of 586
407th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2015 May

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 RX 570 vs Radeon R5 340X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 570 beats the Radeon R5 340X in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R5 340X has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon RX 570 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 570 is better than the Radeon R5 340X.

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