Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 640

Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2010
Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640

43 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770 Mac EditionGeForce GT 640
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders800vs384
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock850 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770 Mac EditionGeForce GT 640
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1195 MHz
4780 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770 Mac EditionGeForce GT 640
TDP108 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date4 Jul 2010vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
    13.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
    76.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better