GeForce 405M: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 405M sales 5 January 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Tesla 2.0 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. Up to 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 14 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 405M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	GT218
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	5 January 2011 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 405M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 405M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed	606 MHz	of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors	260 million	of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	of 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate	4.848	of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power	0.03878 TFLOPS	of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Gigaflops	73
ROPs	4	of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs	8	of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache	32 KB	of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 405M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 405M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 512 MB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed	Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz	of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 405M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
Multi monitor support	+
HDMI	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 405M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce 405M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 API
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 405M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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