GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 vs GeForce GTX 650

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 650
    126%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

Around 26% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

The GeForce GTX 650 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameGK208 (GK208-400-A1)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,540 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock1046 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5GeForce GTX 650
TDP49 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date29 May 2013vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    8.37 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    16.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    803.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    2280
  • GeForce GTX 650
    2880

Points (higher is better)