Radeon HD 7290 vs GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

GT 610 GT 610 PCI GT 620 GT 625 OEM GT 630 GT 630 OEM GT 635 OEM GT 640 GT 640 OEM GT 640 OEM Rebrand GT 640 Rev. 2 GT 645 OEM
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Radeon HD 7290 Radeon HD 7400G Radeon HD 7480D Radeon HD 7570 Radeon HD 7660G Radeon HD 7670 OEM Radeon HD 7750 Radeon HD 7770 Radeon HD 7850 Radeon HD 7870 Radeon HD 7950 Radeon HD 7970

Contents

GT 640 Rev. 2 GT 640 Rev. 2
HD 7290 HD 7290

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking720not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19no data
Power efficiency5.01no data
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGK208Loveland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 May 2013 (11 years ago)6 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38480
Core clock speed1046 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors915 million450 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)49 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate33.473.200
Floating-point processing power0.8033 TFLOPS0.064 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs328

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x8IGP
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1252 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth40.06 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.5-

Pros & cons summary

Recency 29 May 2013 6 June 2012
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 49 Watt 18 Watt

GT 640 Rev. 2 has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 7290, on the other hand, has 172.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 and Radeon HD 7290. We've got no test results to judge.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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Community ratings

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