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GeForce GT 640 DDR3 vs Radeon HD 4730
IntroThe GeForce GT 640 DDR3 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1782 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4730, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthAs far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 4730 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GT 640 DDR3 will be quite a bit (about 29%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4730. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 640 DDR3 is a better choice, by far. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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