GeForce GT 640 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 640
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    732%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

185 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 632% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 780 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Ti

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640GeForce GTX 780 Ti
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-300-A2)vsGK110B (GK110-425-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders384vs2880
Compute Units2vs15
Core clock902 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs32vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640GeForce GTX 780 Ti
TDP65 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date5 Jun 2012vs7 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    52.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    210.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    5040.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 640
    2190
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    16040

Points (higher is better)