NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +467%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

0.693 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +965%

341

GeForce GT 640

32

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +850%

76

GeForce GT 640

8

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce GT 640

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.216 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.86 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

692.7 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GK107

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-300-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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