NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (32W vs 43W)
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
0.572 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
+79%
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2013
Release Date
Jul 2012
GeForce 600M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
40.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
640
32
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.960 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
23.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
572.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
23.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
43W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Heathrow
N13P-GS
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
