NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand and NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 17.28 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Launch date 24 April 2012 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 17.28 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 410
PassMark - G3D Mark 157
PassMark - G2D Mark 42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 331
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 331

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Curie
Code name GF116 G73
Launch date 24 April 2012 22 March 2006
Place in performance rating 1678 1675
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $84.99
Price now $84.99
Value for money (0-100) 2.06

Technical info

Core clock speed 720 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 414.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 144
Texture fill rate 17.28 GTexel / s 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 27 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 177 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR2