GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GT 640

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the 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)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1030 DDR4

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 640
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1152 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 640
Memory TypeDDR4vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 640
TDP20 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better