UHD Graphics 605 vs Radeon R5 340X OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1067
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.32
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameOlandGemini Lake GT1.5
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)11 December 2017 (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 cores384144
Core clock speed900 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistors950 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt5 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6013.50
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS0.216 TFLOPS
ROPs83
TMUs2418

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 x8Ring Bus
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 11 December 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 5 Watt

UHD Graphics 605 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 340X OEM and UHD Graphics 605. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 340X OEM is a desktop card while UHD Graphics 605 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM
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