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GeForce GT 640 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 3690/3830
IntroThe GeForce GT 640 DDR3 comes with a GPU clock speed of 900 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory runs at 1782 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 3690/3830, which features clock speeds of 668 MHz on the GPU, and 828 MHz on the 256 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthTheoretically, the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 3690/3830 in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GT 640 DDR3 should be much (about 169%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3690/3830. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 is superior to the Radeon HD 3690/3830, and very much so. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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