GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGK208 (GK208-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvsunknown
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1152 MHzvs1046 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
TDP20 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs29 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    8.37 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    16.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    803.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better