NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
  • Around 4% better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 108 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 928 vs 824
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 194 vs 53
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 30 March 2009
Pipelines 384 vs 192
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt vs 108 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 928 vs 824
PassMark - G2D Mark 194 vs 53

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

  • 4.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 13337 vs 3192
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3258 vs 2580
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3258 vs 2580
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 13337 vs 3192
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3258 vs 2580
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3258 vs 2580

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
928
824
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
194
53
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3192
13337
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2580
3258
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2580
3258
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
PassMark - G3D Mark 928 824
PassMark - G2D Mark 194 53
Geekbench - OpenCL 3192 13337
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 3258
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2580 3258

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla 2.0
Code name GK107 GT200B
Launch date 22 March 2012 30 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1358 1361
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $799
Price now $109.99
Value for money (0-100) 9.89

Technical info

Boost clock speed 645 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops 462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384 192
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 32 Watt 108 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 1,400 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 38.4 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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
Length 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bus width 128bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus