Radeon R5 340X OEM vs GeForce GT 640

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
GeForce GT 640
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jun 2012
GeForce GT 640

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 340X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 340X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GT 640
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsGK107 (GK107-300-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock1000 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GT 640
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs891 MHz
1782 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 340X OEMGeForce GT 640
TDP65 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs5 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640
    28.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better