GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 6570

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Radeon HD 6570
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6570
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    145%
  • Radeon HD 6570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 45% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6570

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

The GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5Radeon HD 6570
GPU NameGK208 (GK208-400-A1)vsTurks (Turks PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs716 million
Shaders384vs480
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock1046 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5Radeon HD 6570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640 GDDR5Radeon HD 6570
TDP49 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date29 May 2013vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    8.37 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    16.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6570
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    803.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6570
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    2280
  • Radeon HD 6570
    1570

Points (higher is better)