AMD Radeon HD 6640G2

The AMD Radeon HD 6640G2 is the combination of a integrated AMD Radeon HD 6620G APU processor graphics card and a dedicated entry level AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics card in CrossFire combination. It is called AMD Dual Graphics or asymmetric CrossFire and uses AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) to render different frames on the two graphic cores. Therefore the combination also suffers from micro stuttering (different spaces between two images lead to stuttering altough the framerate is high enough for fluent gaming with only one GPU).
The performance of the Radeon HD 6640G2 depends greatly on the driver support for the used games. In some games the performance may even degrade by 10-15% compared to using only the APU graphics card. Currently (June 2011) only DirectX 10 and 11 graphics modes are supported and therefore lower settings and older games are not accelerated. Due to the micro stuttering and performance problems, Dual Graphics may impose more problems than bring performance gains.
The features like PureVideo HD (UVD3) or OpenCL support are similar to the two graphics cards.
As both graphics cards are rendering frames, the power consumption is clearly higher than using only one GPU.
Radeon HD 6000G2 Series
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Architecture | Terascale 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 560 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 40 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 14.06.2011 |
Benchmarks

* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
Notebook reviews with AMD Radeon HD 6640G2 graphics card
Samsung 305E7A-S04DE: AMD A8-3520M, 17.30", 2.7 kg
External Review » Samsung 305E7A-S04DE
Toshiba Satellite L750D-17Q: AMD A8-3500M, 15.60", 2.5 kg
External Review » Toshiba Satellite L750D-17Q