GeForce 405M vs 6800 LE

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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
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameNV40GT218
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date21 July 2004 (20 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 coresno data16
Core clock speed300 MHz606 MHz
Number of transistors222 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data14 Watt
Texture fill rate2.4004.848
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03878 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data73
ROPs84
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 supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MBUp to 512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed350 MHzUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoDisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI-+
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 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 API
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.14.5
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 July 2004 5 January 2011
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm

GeForce 405M has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6800 LE and GeForce 405M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 6800 LE is a desktop card while GeForce 405M is a notebook one.


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