Radeon R8 M535DX vs GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition and Radeon R8 M535DX, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

GT 640M Mac Edition
2013
512 MB GDDR5, 32 Watt
1.04

R8 M535DX outperforms GT 640M Mac Edition by an impressive 67% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1094926
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.27no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGK107Meso
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 February 2013 (11 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores384320
Core clock speed745 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data891 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Wattno data
Texture fill rate23.8417.82
Floating-point processing power0.5722 TFLOPS0.5702 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs3220

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 x16IGP

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
Shared memory-+

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.04 1.74
Recency 3 February 2013 18 April 2017

R8 M535DX has a 67.3% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 4 years.

The Radeon R8 M535DX is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition in performance tests.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
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