AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range) vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range) and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range)

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 9 month(s) later
3.4x more boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 645 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 32 Watt
Around 60% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5090 vs 3186
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 265 vs 204
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1103 vs 931

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 Jan 2023 vs 22 March 2012
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 645 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 32 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	5090 vs 3186
PassMark - G2D Mark	265 vs 204
PassMark - G3D Mark	1103 vs 931

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128

Pipelines	384 vs 128

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

5090

3186

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

265

204

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1103

931

Name	AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range)	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
Geekbench - OpenCL	5090	3186
PassMark - G2D Mark	265	204
PassMark - G3D Mark	1103	931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		7.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		275.972
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.727
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		15.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		17.381
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2580
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2580

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 610M (Dragon Range)	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Kepler
Code name	Dragon Range	GK107
Launch date	3 Jan 2023	22 March 2012
Place in performance rating	840	1352
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz	645 MHz
Compute units	2
Core clock speed	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	35.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,126 GFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	563.2 GFLOPS
Pipelines	128	384
Pixel fill rate	8.800 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	17.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	32 Watt
CUDA cores		384
Floating-point performance		480.0 gflops
Transistor count		1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 API
OpenCL	2.1	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent
Memory bus width	System Shared	128bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1800 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	DDR3\GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus