GeForce GT 640 vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 640
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    846%

Relative performance

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 Radeon HD 7990 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7990

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 746% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640Radeon HD 7990
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-300-A2)vsMalta ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders384vs2048
Compute Units2vs32
Core clock902 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640Radeon HD 7990
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640Radeon HD 7990
TDP65 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date5 Jun 2012vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 640
    2190
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)