GeForce GT 640 vs Radeon HD 6670

GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640
Radeon HD 6670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6670

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 640
    111%
  • Radeon HD 6670
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 11% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6670

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 640

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640Radeon HD 6670
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-300-A2)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs716 million
Shaders384vs480
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock902 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640Radeon HD 6670
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640Radeon HD 6670
TDP65 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date5 Jun 2012vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6670
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 640
    2190
  • Radeon HD 6670
    1960

Points (higher is better)