NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 33% better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 360.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 928 vs 450
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 194 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 7 January 2010
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	928 vs 450
PassMark - G2D Mark	194 vs 146

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 650 MHz vs 645 MHz
Around 4% higher pipelines: 400 vs 384
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 32 Watt
Around 18% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3776 vs 3192
Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3340 vs 2580
Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3340 vs 2580

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	650 MHz vs 645 MHz
Pipelines	400 vs 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 32 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	3776 vs 3192
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340 vs 2580
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340 vs 2580

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

928

450

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

194

146

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3192

3776

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2580

3340

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2580

3340

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
PassMark - G3D Mark	928	450
PassMark - G2D Mark	194	146
Geekbench - OpenCL	3192	3776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	275.972
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.727
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	17.381
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2580	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2580	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK107	Madison
Launch date	22 March 2012	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1358	1360
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	645 MHz	650 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	400
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	32 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	627 million
Core clock speed		450 MHz
Texture fill rate		9 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 API	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3\GDDR5	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus