GeForce GT 640 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

310 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 640GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-300-A2)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders384vs2880
Compute Units2vs15
Core clock902 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs32vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP65 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date5 Jun 2012vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better