GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition vs FirePro W6170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
572
FirePro W6170M
+244%
1971
Graphics Card
Feb 2013
Release Date
Aug 2014
GeForce 600M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
40.00GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
384
Shading Units
896
32
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
5.960 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
23.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
572.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
23.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Emerald
N13P-GS
GPU Variant
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5