NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 902 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 28.86 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 384 vs 48
  • 5.8x better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 120 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 768 MB
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1170 vs 282
  • 7.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 295 vs 41
  • Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3328 vs 2389
  • Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3328 vs 2389
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 June 2012 vs 29 July 2008
Core clock speed 902 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 28.86 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 48
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops vs 120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 768 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1170 vs 282
PassMark - G2D Mark 295 vs 41
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3328 vs 2389
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3328 vs 2389

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

  • Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1782 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1170
282
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
295
41
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3328
2389
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3328
2389
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1170 282
PassMark - G2D Mark 295 41
Geekbench - OpenCL 3771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 11.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 206.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 14.637
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 20.86
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2375
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3328 2389
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2375
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3328 2389
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1565

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK107 G94
Launch date 5 June 2012 29 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Place in performance rating 1158 1529
Price now $59.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 25.25

Technical info

Core clock speed 902 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops 120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 48
Texture fill rate 28.86 GTexel / s 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 505 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 768 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.51 GB / s 48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR2