NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI vs NVIDIA GeForce 405M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI and NVIDIA GeForce 405M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

NVIDIA GeForce 405M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI

48x more pipelines: 768 vs 16

Pipelines	768 vs 16

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 405M

Around 95% higher core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 620 MHz
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Core clock speed	1212 MHz vs 620 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI	NVIDIA GeForce 405M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla 2.0
Code name	N12E-GTX2	GT218
Launch date	6 January 2011	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	620 MHz	1212 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	768	16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	14 Watt
CUDA cores		16
Floating-point performance		38.78 gflops
Gigaflops		73
Texture fill rate		4.85 GTexel / s
Transistor count		260 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11	12 API
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA, Dual Link DVI, Single Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0