NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M 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: 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 561 MHz
Around 77% higher texture fill rate: 23.84 GTexel / s vs 13.46 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 384 vs 72
3.5x better floating-point performance: 572.2 gflops vs 162 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 41% lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 45 Watt
2.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 2200 MHz
3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2983 vs 926
3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5586 vs 1450

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 February 2013 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed	745 MHz vs 561 MHz
Texture fill rate	23.84 GTexel / s vs 13.46 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 72
Floating-point performance	572.2 gflops vs 162 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt vs 45 Watt
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 2200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2983 vs 926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5586 vs 1450

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
19.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 926 vs 48.1
14.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1450 vs 99.8

Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	926 vs 48.1
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1450 vs 99.8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2983

926

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

5586

1450

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

48.1

926

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

99.8

1450

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.577
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	226.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.559
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	11.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	12.554
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2983	926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5586	1450
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	28.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	48.1	926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	99.8	1450
PassMark - G3D Mark		467
PassMark - G2D Mark		70
Geekbench - OpenCL		7043

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GK107	GT215
Launch date	3 February 2013	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1507	1504
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	745 MHz	561 MHz
Floating-point performance	572.2 gflops	162 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	72
Texture fill rate	23.84 GTexel / s	13.46 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	727 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	40 GB / s	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	2200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA