AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640M LE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 50.24GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M +254%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640M LE

0.289 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

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GeForce GT 640M LE

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

May 2012

London

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

785 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

50.24GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.012 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

289.0 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

GF108

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

32W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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