Radeon HD 4670 X2 vs GeForce GT 640

Radeon HD 4670 X2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4670 X2
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4670 X2

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

53 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4670 X2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 640

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 640

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4670 X2GeForce GT 640
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders320vs384
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock750 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4670 X2GeForce GT 640
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4670 X2GeForce GT 640
TDP118 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    12.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    48.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    44.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4670 X2
    960.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better