HD Graphics 405 vs GeForce 310M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1159
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.66
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameGT218Braswell GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 April 2015 (9 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 cores16128
Core clock speed606 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors260 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8489.600
Floating-point processing power0.04896 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
Gigaflops73no data
ROPs42
TMUs816

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 supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsDisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVIPortable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

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

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.3
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A+
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GeForce 310M 1123
HD Graphics 405 2081
+85.3%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 1 April 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 6 Watt

HD Graphics 405 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 310M and HD Graphics 405. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 310M is a notebook card while HD Graphics 405 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 310M
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