GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Summary
GeForce GTX 570
257%
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570 |
| Around 157% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 |
| 170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570
The GeForce GTX 570 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 570 | | GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF110 (GF110-275-A1) | vs | GK208 (GK208-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,000 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 480 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 15 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 732 MHz | vs | 1046 MHz |
| ROPs | 40 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 60 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 570 | | GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 950 MHz
3800 MHz effective | vs | 1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1280 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 570 | | GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| TDP | 219 watts | vs | 49 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Dec 2010 | vs | 29 May 2013 |
GeForce GTX 570
22.00 GP/s
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
8.37 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 570
43.90 GT/s
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
16.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 570
152.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
40.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 570
1405.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
803.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 570
5860
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
2280
Points (higher is better)