NVIDIA GeForce 405M vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 405M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 405M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 43W)
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
624 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 405M
0.039 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
+2525%
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Jul 2012
GeForce 400M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
640
8
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.424 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
4.848 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
38.78 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
43W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Heathrow
-
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
