NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 640

0.693 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +201%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

-

384

Shading Units

1440

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.216 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

28.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

692.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

28.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

302W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Hemlock

GK107-300-A2

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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