GeForce 210 vs GeForce GT 640

GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 640

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 210GeForce GT 640
GPU NameGT218 (GT218-300-B1)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size57 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors260 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders16vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock520 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 210GeForce GT 640
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 210GeForce GT 640
TDP31 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date12 Oct 2009vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better