GeForce 405M vs Radeon HD 4770

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking809not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code nameRV740GT218
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 April 2009 (15 years ago)11 May 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data
Current price$182 (1.7x MSRP)$163

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

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 cores64016
CUDA coresno data16
Core clock speed750 MHz606 MHz
Number of transistors826 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt14 Watt
Texture fill rate24.004.848
Floating-point performance960.0 gflops38.78 gflops
Gigaflopsno data73

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 4770 and GeForce 405M 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 supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length203 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBUp to 512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed3200 MHzUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoDisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMIno data+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 API
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.34.5
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 April 2009 11 May 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 14 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4770 and GeForce 405M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4770 is a desktop card while GeForce 405M is a notebook one.


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