ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 40.06GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +49%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

0.803 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1252 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

40.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.368 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

803.3 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.47 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GK208

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GK208-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

49W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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