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GeForce GT 640 DDR3 vs GeForce GTS 450

Intro

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 has core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1782 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTS 450, which has core clock speeds of 783 MHz on the GPU, and 902 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 1560 points
GeForce GTS 450 1453 points
Difference: 107 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 65 Watts
GeForce GTS 450 106 Watts
Difference: 41 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTS 450 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 57728 MB/sec
GeForce GT 640 DDR3 57024 MB/sec
Difference: 704 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 will be a little bit (approximately 15%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 28800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 25056 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3744 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 should be a bit (more or less 15%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTS 450, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 12528 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1872 (15%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 640 DDR3 GeForce GTS 450
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year June 2012 September 2010
Code Name GK107 GF106
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 783 MHz
Memory Speed 3564 MHz 3608 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 106 watts
Bandwidth 57024 MB/sec 57728 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 25056 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14400 Mpixels/sec 12528 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 192
Texture Mapping Units 32 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1300 million 1170 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 640 DDR3

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