NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
7.9x more memory clock speed: 3140 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	4 May 2012 vs 17 March 2003
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3140 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	704
PassMark - G2D Mark	171
Geekbench - OpenCL	2344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	251.012
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	13.954
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3127

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rankine
Code name	GF108	NV31 A1
Launch date	4 May 2012	17 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$849.99
Place in performance rating	1340	not rated
Price now	$849.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	1.17
Technical info
CUDA cores	Up to 384
Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	80 million
Core clock speed		235 MHz
Texture fill rate		940 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0a
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3140 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3\DDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers