GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GT 640

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 640
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1228 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 640
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 640
TDP30 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better