GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

326 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN Z .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN Z

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU NameGK208 (GK208-400-A1)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs7,080 million
Shaders384vs2880
Compute Units2vs15
Core clock1046 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs8vs48
TMUs16vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP49 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date29 May 2013vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    8.37 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    16.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    803.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better