GeForce 405M vs Radeon RX 480

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularity97not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.82no data
Power efficiency10.21no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameEllesmereGT218
GCN generation4th Genno data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)5 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores230416
Compute units36no data
Core clock speed1120 MHz606 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt14 Watt
Texture fill rate182.34.848
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS0.03878 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data73
ROPs324
TMUs1448

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 supportn/aPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GBUp to 512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHzUp to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth224 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortDisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
Eyefinity+-
HDMI2.0+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
DisplayPort support1.4HDR-

Supported technologies

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

AppAccelerationn/a-
CrossFire+-
Enduron/a-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3Dn/a-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudion/a-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-
Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 API
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.54.5
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan+N/A
Mantlen/a-
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 5 January 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 14 Watt

RX 480 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 405M, on the other hand, has 971.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 and GeForce 405M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 is a desktop card while GeForce 405M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 480
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