AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +437%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 OEM

0.612 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GT 640 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.376 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.50 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

612.1 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

25.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GK107

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GK107-320-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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