GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 vs Radeon R7 250X

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250X
    176%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 250X

Around 76% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250X

The Radeon R7 250X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5Radeon R7 250X
GPU NameGK208 (GK208-400-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock1046 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5Radeon R7 250X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5Radeon R7 250X
TDP49 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date29 May 2013vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    8.37 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    16.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    803.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    2280
  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020

Points (higher is better)