GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GT 640

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    201%
  • GeForce GT 640
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 101% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GT 640
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock993 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GT 640
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GT 640
TDP75 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • GeForce GT 640
    2190

Points (higher is better)