GeForce GT 640 vs Radeon R5 340 OEM

GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640
Radeon R5 340 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 640

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 640Radeon R5 340 OEM
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-300-A2)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock902 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 640Radeon R5 340 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 640Radeon R5 340 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date5 Jun 2012vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    614.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better