ATI Radeon 3000 IGP vs GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1089not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.26no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGK107RS780
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 February 2013 (11 years ago)2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38440
Core clock speed745 MHz350 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Wattno data
Texture fill rate23.841.400
Floating-point processing power0.5722 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs324

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth40 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.0
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

GT 640M Mac Edition has a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and Radeon 3000 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon 3000 IGP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
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