GeForce RTX 5070 vs 405M
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 23 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | 64 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 69.22 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 19.57 |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | Blackwell 2.0 (2025) |
| GPU code name | GT218 | GB205 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | 5 January 2011 (14 years ago) | 4 March 2025 (recently) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $549 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
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 | 16 | 6144 |
| Core clock speed | 606 MHz | 2325 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 2512 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 260 million | 31,100 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 250 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 4.848 | 482.3 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.03878 TFLOPS | 30.87 TFLOPS |
| Gigaflops | 73 | no data |
| ROPs | 4 | 80 |
| TMUs | 8 | 192 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 192 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 48 |
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).
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 245 mm |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 1x 16-pin |
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 | GDDR3 | GDDR7 |
| Maximum RAM amount | Up to 512 MB | 12 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 192 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | 672.0 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 | DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b |
| Multi monitor support | + | no data |
| HDMI | + | + |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Power management | 8.0 | no data |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 API | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.4 |
| CUDA | + | 10.1 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 5 January 2011 | 4 March 2025 |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 250 Watt |
GeForce 405M has 1685.7% lower power consumption.
RTX 5070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce 405M and GeForce RTX 5070. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce 405M is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5070 is a desktop one.
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