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 (13 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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 606 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 260 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.848 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.03878 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Gigaflops | 73 | |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| 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 compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 405M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 API | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 405M is Radeon HD 8310E.
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