NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +354%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

0.572 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

40.00GB/s

Render Config

-

1344

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

384 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.960 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.84 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

572.2 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

32W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GK107

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N13P-GS

Kepler

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.1

3.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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