ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 405M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 405M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 405M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jan 2011
M5x
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
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396 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.67GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
16
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.592 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
1.592 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
38.78 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
14W
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-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
M56
GPU Name
GT218
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-
-
Ultra-Threaded SE
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.157 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
150 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
