GeForce GT 640M LE and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 640M LE vs Radeon 8500
GeForce GT 640M LE
720
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce GT 640M LE
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Fermi / Kepler (2012)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N13P-LP
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
August 2001
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
Up to 500 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
Up to 384
-
Floating-point performance
384.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 16.0 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
DDR3\DDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 4000 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 28.8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
Optimus
+
-