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.

 

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 1514 1511
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