GeForce G205M: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce G205M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.24% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce G205M sales 8 January 2009. This is a Tesla architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 14 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce G205M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1367
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.18of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameC79
Market segmentLaptop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce G205M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce G205M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed450 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors314 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)14 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate3.600of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs4of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce G205M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce G205M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce G205M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce G205M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce G205M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce G205M 0.24

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce G205M 91

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce G205M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce G205M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


ION LE 104.17
GeForce G205M 100
ION 91.67

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce G205M is Mobility Radeon HD 3470, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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Community ratings

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