GeForce GT 640 OEM vs Radeon HD 6850

Place in the ranking	622	930
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.96	no data
Power efficiency	2.79	2.36
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Barts	GK107
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	21 October 2010 (14 years ago)	24 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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	960	384
Core clock speed	no data	797 MHz
Number of transistors	1,700 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	127 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	37.20	25.50
Floating-point processing power	1.488 TFLOPS	0.6121 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	16
TMUs	48	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).

Bus support	AGP	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	198 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 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	no data	891 MHz
Memory bandwidth	128.0 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, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity	+	-
HDMI	+	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 11	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	-	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	5.09	1.70
Recency	21 October 2010	24 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	127 Watt	50 Watt

HD 6850 has a 199.4% higher aggregate performance score.

GT 640 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 154% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 6850 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.