Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GT 640 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GT 640 OEM
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Cypress
GK107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
797 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
612.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
384
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
25.50
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1782 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
28.51 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126