RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
Aggregate performance score
We've compared GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition with RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile, including specs and performance data.
RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile outperforms GT 640M Mac Edition by a whopping 4825% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1147 | 82 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 2.25 | 35.44 |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) |
| GPU code name | GK107 | AD104 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Mobile workstation |
| Release date | 3 February 2013 (12 years ago) | 21 March 2023 (2 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 cores | 384 | 5120 |
| Core clock speed | 745 MHz | 1110 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1545 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 1,270 million | 35,800 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 32 Watt | 100 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 23.84 | 247.2 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5722 TFLOPS | 15.82 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 64 |
| TMUs | 32 | 160 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 160 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 40 |
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).
| Laptop size | no data | large |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
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 type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 12 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 192 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 40 GB/s | 432.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
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 Connectors | No outputs | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | 8.9 |
| DLSS | - | + |
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 | 0.96 | 47.28 |
| Recency | 3 February 2013 | 21 March 2023 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 12 GB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 32 Watt | 100 Watt |
GT 640M Mac Edition has 212.5% lower power consumption.
RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has a 4825% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.
The RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition in performance tests.
Be aware that GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.
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