NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (84.10GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +281%

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 OEM

0.612 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

GeForce GT 640 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

-

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.376 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.50 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

612.1 GFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

25.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GK107

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-320-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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