AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 655 / 600 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 5.8x more pipelines: 736 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 / 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1640 MHz
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 97 vs 71
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3361 vs 3342
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3361 vs 3342
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 May 2012 vs 11 December 2007
Core clock speed 655 / 600 MHz vs 650 MHz
Pipelines 736 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 32 / 40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1640 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 97 vs 71
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 vs 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 vs 3342

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 555 vs 519
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 555 vs 519

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
519
555
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
97
71
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3342
Name AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
PassMark - G3D Mark 519 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 97 71
Geekbench - OpenCL 8444
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 157
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2097
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2097
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 3342

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Tesla
Launch date 15 May 2012 11 December 2007
Place in performance rating 1336 1339
Type Laptop Desktop
Code name G92
Launch price (MSRP) $349

Technical info

Core clock speed 655 / 600 MHz 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 / 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 736 128
Floating-point performance 416.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 41.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 135 Watt
Transistor count 754 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1640 MHz
Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 52.5 GB / s
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video