NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs ATI FireGL V8600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 640 +57%

0.693 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

384

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.216 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

28.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

692.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

28.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

R600

GK107-300-A2

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

159W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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