GeForce GT 640 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Place in the ranking	591	927
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.55	no data
Power efficiency	2.12	2.35
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Cypress	GK107
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	23 September 2009 (15 years ago)	24 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	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 cores	1600	384
Core clock speed	850 MHz	797 MHz
Number of transistors	2,154 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	188 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	25.50
Floating-point processing power	2.72 TFLOPS	0.6121 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	16
TMUs	80	32

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	282 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	891 MHz
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	28.51 GB/s

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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	-	3.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	5.75	1.70
Recency	23 September 2009	24 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	188 Watt	50 Watt

ATI HD 5870 has a 238.2% higher aggregate performance score.

GT 640 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 276% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 5870 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 640 OEM in performance tests.

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