GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition vs FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Lower TDP (32W vs 75W)
FirePro M8900 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
572
FirePro M8900
+128%
1306
Graphics Card
Feb 2013
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 600M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
40.00GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
384
Shading Units
960
32
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
5.960 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
23.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
572.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
23.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Blackcomb
N13P-GS
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
