Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce GT 640

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5770
    126%
  • GeForce GT 640
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

Around 26% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5770

The Radeon HD 5770 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce 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 5770GeForce GT 640
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GT 640
TDP108 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

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

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

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

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5770
    2780
  • GeForce GT 640
    2190

Points (higher is better)