GeForce 405 OEM vs Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking475not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTGT216
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 January 2011 (13 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 cores192024
Core clock speed680 MHz475 MHz
Number of transistors2x1700 Million486 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount2x2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz400 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.

DirectX1111.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2011 3 September 2010

HD 6970M Crossfire has an age advantage of 4 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and GeForce 405 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is a notebook card while GeForce 405 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
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