NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 640

0.693 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +18%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

384

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.216 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

28.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

692.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

28.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GK107-300-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

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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