NVIDIA GeForce 405M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 405M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 405M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 405M

2x more core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt

Core clock speed	1212 MHz vs 600 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 23 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Around 98% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 billion / sec vs 4.85 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 96 vs 16
5.9x better floating-point performance: 230.4 gflops vs 38.78 gflops

Texture fill rate	9.6 billion / sec vs 4.85 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 16
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops vs 38.78 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 405M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 405M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
PassMark - G3D Mark		458
PassMark - G2D Mark		93
Geekbench - OpenCL		1864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2623
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2623

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 405M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Fermi
Code name	GT218	GF108
Launch date	5 January 2011	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1542
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1212 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	16	96
Floating-point performance	38.78 gflops	230.4 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	16	96
Texture fill rate	4.85 GTexel / s	9.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 API	12 API
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory clock speed		900 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus