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GeForce GT 640 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1782 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 63 Watts
GeForce GT 640 DDR3 65 Watts
Difference: 2 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 640 DDR3 57024 MB/sec
Difference: 6976 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 should be quite a bit (more or less 50%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9600 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 6400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8000 (125%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 640 DDR3 Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2012 February 2011
Code Name GK107 Turks
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 3564 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 63 watts
Bandwidth 57024 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14400 Mpixels/sec 6400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 480
Texture Mapping Units 32 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1300 million 715 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 640 DDR3

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Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce GT 640 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB”
naon says:

Is the memory for GT 640 as 1782MHz correct? I think the base memory speed is 891Mhz and the effective memory speed is 1782.

majid says:

well despite these results hd6670 performs well over all in games etc

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