GeForce 405M vs 315M

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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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218GT218
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)5 January 2011 (13 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 cores1616
Core clock speed606 MHz606 MHz
Number of transistors260 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt14 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8484.848
Floating-point processing power0.03878 TFLOPS0.03878 TFLOPS
Gigaflops7373
ROPs44
TMUs88

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 2.0PCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MBUp to 512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHzUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s25.6 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 ConnectorsDisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
Multi monitor support++
HDMI++
Maximum VGA resolution2048x15362048x1536

Supported technologies

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

Power management8.08.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 API
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL4.14.5
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA++

Pros & cons summary


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