NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 640

0.693 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +241%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.216 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

28.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

692.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

28.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Curacao

GK107-300-A2

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

212 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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