GeForce GT 640M and Radeon HD 8550G - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 640M vs Radeon HD 8550G
GeForce GT 640M
943
Radeon HD 8550G
422
GeForce GT 640M
Radeon HD 8550G
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
N13P-GS
Richland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
March 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Boost clock speed
645 MHz
720 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 625 MHz
515 MHz
CUDA cores
384
-
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
1,303 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
256
Power consumption (TDP)
32 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 20.0 billion/sec
11.52
Memory type
DDR3\GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1800 - 4000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
Up to 64.0 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
+
-