NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E6460

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon E6460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• Around 24% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 600 MHz
• 5x more texture fill rate: 23.84 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
• 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
• 3x better floating-point performance: 572.2 gflops vs 192 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3200 MHz
• 4.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 6.577 vs 1.616
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 226.218 vs 104.843
• 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.559 vs 0.225
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 11.947 vs 4.942
• 3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1706 vs 531
• 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2983 vs 801
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5586 vs 1925

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E6460

• Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 32 Watt
• Around 47% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 18.457 vs 12.554
• 18.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 531 vs 28.9
• 16.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 801 vs 48.1
• 19.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1925 vs 99.8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E6460

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6.577 1.616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	226.218 104.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.559 0.225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.947 4.942
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.554 18.457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1706 531
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2983 801
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5586 1925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.9 531
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	48.1 801
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	99.8 1925

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