NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 640

0.693 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +520%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 600

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

384

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.216 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

28.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

692.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

28.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK107-300-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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