NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand vs NVIDIA Quadro 400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand and NVIDIA Quadro 400 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 17.28 GTexel / s vs 7.2 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 144 vs 48
  • 3.8x better floating-point performance: 414.7 gflops vs 108 gflops
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 512 MB
  • Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1540 MHz
Launch date 24 April 2012 vs 5 April 2011
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 17.28 GTexel / s vs 7.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 144 vs 48
Floating-point performance 414.7 gflops vs 108 gflops
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1540 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 400

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 400

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand NVIDIA Quadro 400
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 410
PassMark - G3D Mark 148
PassMark - G2D Mark 59
Geekbench - OpenCL 4630
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1103
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1103

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand NVIDIA Quadro 400

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GF116 GT216
Launch date 24 April 2012 5 April 2011
Place in performance rating 1606 1607
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $169
Price now $145.55
Value for money (0-100) 2.13

Technical info

Core clock speed 720 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 414.7 gflops 108 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 144 48
Texture fill rate 17.28 GTexel / s 7.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 32 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 486 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm 163 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s 12.32 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1540 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3