GeForce 405M vs Radeon HD 6970

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	534	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.00	no data
Power efficiency	2.03	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	Cayman	GT218
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	14 December 2010 (13 years ago)	5 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$369	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	1536	16
Core clock speed	no data	606 MHz
Boost clock speed	880 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,640 million	260 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	550 Watt	14 Watt
Texture fill rate	84.48	4.848
Floating-point processing power	2.703 TFLOPS	0.03878 TFLOPS
Gigaflops	no data	73
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	96	8

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	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	Up to 512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	25.6 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
Multi monitor support	no data	+
Eyefinity	+	-
HDMI	+	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire	+	-
Power management	no data	8.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 11	12 API
Shader Model	5.0	4.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.5
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	-	N/A
CUDA	-	+

Pros & cons summary

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Power consumption (TDP)

550 Watt

14 Watt

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