GeForce GT 640M and Radeon HD 6550M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 640M
Radeon HD 6550M
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N13P-GS
Capilano-PRO
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
November 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-II
Boost clock speed
645 MHz
-
Core clock speed
Up to 625 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
384
-
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
400
Power consumption (TDP)
32 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 20.0 billion/sec
12.00
Memory type
DDR3\GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 4000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 64.0 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
Optimus
+
-