NVIDIA GeForce 405M vs AMD Radeon R5 A230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 405M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock855MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 405M
0.039 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 A230
+1302%
0.547 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 400M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
780 MHz
-
Boost Clock
855 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
20
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.424 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.840 GPixel/s
4.848 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.10 GTexel/s
-
-
-
38.78 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
547.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
34.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Jet
-
GPU Variant
Jet PRO
(216-0856040)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
