NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5200M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and NVIDIA NVS 5200M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
• Around 11% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 672 MHz
• 2.2x more texture fill rate: 23.84 GTexel / s vs 10.75 GTexel / s
• 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
• 2.2x better floating-point performance: 572.2 gflops vs 258.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 59% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3140 MHz
• Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 6.577 vs 5.829
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 226.218 vs 189.966
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.559 vs 0.539
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 11.947 vs 9.643
• 7.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1706 vs 222
• 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2983 vs 1099
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5586 vs 2715

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 5200M

• Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 32 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 34% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 16.851 vs 12.554
• 7.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 222 vs 28.9
• 22.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1099 vs 48.1
• 27.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2715 vs 99.8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA NVS 5200M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6.577 5.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	226.218 189.966
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.559 0.539
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.947 9.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.554 16.851
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1706 222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2983 1099
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5586 2715
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.9 222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	48.1 1099
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	99.8 2715

Compare specifications (specs)