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    GeForce GT 640M LE vs Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

    GeForce GT 640M LE
    Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 22 Mar 2012
    GeForce GT 640M LE
    Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 6 Dec 2015
    Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GT 640M LE
      100%
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      106%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GT 640M LE

    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Mantle
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

    HWBench recommends Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

    The Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GT 640M LERadeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    GPU NameGK107 (N13P-LP)vsOpal (Opal PRO)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size118 mm²vs77 mm²
    Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
    Shaders384vs384
    Compute Units2vs6
    Core clock500 MHzvs620 MHz
    ROPs16vs8
    TMUs32vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GT 640M LERadeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective    		vs1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GT 640M LERadeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    TDP20 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date22 Mar 2012vs6 Dec 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GT 640M LE
      4.00 GP/s
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      5.72 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GT 640M LE
      16.00 GT/s
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      17.16 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GT 640M LE
      28.80 GB/s
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      64.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GT 640M LE
      384.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      549.10 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GT 640M LE
      1770
    • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
      1880

    Points (higher is better)

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