GeForce 405 OEM vs 9500M GE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameMCP79Mx + NB9MGT216
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 January 2008 (16 years ago)3 September 2010 (14 years ago)

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 cores2424
Core clock speedno data475 MHz
Number of transistorsno data486 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.700
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0528 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data12

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.011.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2008 3 September 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm

405 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500M GE and GeForce 405 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9500M GE is a notebook card while GeForce 405 OEM is a desktop one.


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