GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GT 640

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%
  • GeForce GT 640
    167%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 67% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 640

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640

The GeForce GT 640 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 640
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders112vs384
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 640
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 640
TDP125 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • GeForce GT 640
    2190

Points (higher is better)