GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
Memory: 1536Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM Rebrand

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGF116 (GF116-150-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders64vs144
Compute Units4vs3
Core clock650 MHzvs720 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
TDP95 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs24 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
    4.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
    17.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
    38.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
    414.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better