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GeForce GT 640 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 4830 512MB

Intro

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 has a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM is set to run at 1782 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, which comes with clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 65 Watts
Radeon HD 4830 512MB 95 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 4830 512MB will be 1% faster than the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 4830 512MB 57600 MB/sec
GeForce GT 640 DDR3 57024 MB/sec
Difference: 576 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 640 DDR3 will be quite a bit (approximately 57%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB 18400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10400 (57%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 640 DDR3 14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB 9200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5200 (57%)

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 Radeon HD 4830 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2012 Oct 21, 2008
Code Name GK107 RV770 LE
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 3564 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 57024 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 18400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14400 Mpixels/sec 9200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 32 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1300 million 956 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 640 DDR3

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