NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
VS
AMD Radeon Pro Duo
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
VS
AMD Radeon Pro Duo

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

769
Place in performance rating
161
0.92
Value for money (0-100)
23.81
Fermi / Kepler
Architecture
GCN 3.0
GF108
Code name
Capsaicin
Laptop
Type
Workstation
22 March 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
26 April 2016 (5 years ago)
$849.99
Launch price (MSRP)
$1,499
$310 (0.4x MSRP)
Price now
$5000 (3.3x MSRP)
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Design
reference
0.10
Value for money
2.54
N13P-LP
GPU code name
Capsaicin
Laptop
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
4096
no data
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
8,900 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
20 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
350 Watt
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Texture fill rate
256.0
384.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
2x 8,192 gflops
Up to 384
CUDA cores
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no data
Compute units
128
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
no data
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
585 million
Number of transistors
8,900 million
20 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
350 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
277 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
3x 8-pin
medium sized
Laptop size
no data
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
PCIe 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo can be seen in this section.

DDR3\DDR5
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
128bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
1800 - 4000 MHz
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
-
Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
+
HDCP
no data
Up to 2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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Eyefinity
1
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Number of Eyefinity displays
6
+
HDMI
+
no data
DisplayPort support
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
no data
AppAcceleration
+
no data
CrossFire
1
no data
FRTC
1
no data
FreeSync
1
no data
HD3D
+
no data
LiquidVR
1
no data
PowerTune
+
no data
TressFX
1
no data
TrueAudio
+
no data
ZeroCore
+
no data
VCE
+
no data
Enduro
+
no data
UVD
+
+
Verde Drivers
no data
+
3D Blu-Ray
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11
no data
+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
no data
+
DirectCompute
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.5
OpenGL
4.5
N/A
Vulkan
+
5.1
Shader Model
6.0
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
no data
Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE and AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE or AMD Radeon Pro Duo good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
AMD Radeon Pro Duo
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
AMD Radeon Pro Duo
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
AMD Radeon Pro Duo
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
AMD Radeon Pro Duo
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
AMD Radeon Pro Duo
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

Cheaper ($310 (0.4x MSRP) vs $5000 (3.3x MSRP))

Less power consumption (20 Watt vs 350 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon Pro Duo

41.63% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (4096 vs 96)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 2 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE or AMD Radeon Pro Duo?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Pro Duo .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE versus AMD Radeon Pro Duo performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
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