HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2) vs GeForce GT 640

HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2013
HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
    100%
  • GeForce GT 640
    413%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GT 640 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

Around 313% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

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

HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)GeForce GT 640
GPU NameHaswell GT2 ()vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process22 nmvs28 nm
Die Size177 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors392 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders20vs384
Compute Units0vs2
Core clock350 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs2vs16
TMUs4vs32

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)GeForce GT 640
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)GeForce GT 640
TDP20 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date3 Sep 2013vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
    0.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
    1.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
    14.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • HD Graphics 4400 (Haswell GT2)
    530
  • GeForce GT 640
    2190

Points (higher is better)