Tesla M4 vs GeForce 405M

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	GT218	GM206
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	11 May 2012 (11 years ago)	10 November 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	$163	$70

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	1024
CUDA cores	16	no data
Core clock speed	606 MHz	872 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1072 MHz
Number of transistors	260 million	2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.848	68.61
Floating-point performance	38.78 gflops	2,195 gflops
Gigaflops	73	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 405M and Tesla M4 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	no data	1-slot

Memory

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, DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	Up to 512 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz	5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	88 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Video outputs and ports

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	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

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 support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 API	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	+	5.2

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	11 May 2012	10 November 2015
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	14 Watt	50 Watt

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