Geforce 410M Video Card

The nVidia fans have waited for a long time for Geforce GTX 4xx-series cards to appear, because the manufacturer was having serious issues with the new architecture chips. Most of the chips coming out of the factory were defective and many of their parts had to be disabled, so they could be sold as inferior products. This is why notebook graphics cards took longer to appear, nVidia had to reduce power consumption and improve the architecture to have less defective chips.

The Geforce 410M video cards were launched after their high-end brothers. They support DirectX 11, but come equipped with only up to 512MB of 64bit DDR3 memory and just 48 CUDA cores are active at 1150MHz GPU clock. This means that laptops with this card installed offer very basic 3D performance and adequate multimedia acceleration. They support multiple monitor outputs, including analog VGA, dual link DLI, single link DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI. The maximum resolution on the digital side is 2560 x 1600, while the analog VGA port can reach 2048 x 1536 resolution.

According to notebookcheck.net the Geforce 410M video card requires up to 15Watts of power when just 24 of the 48 CUDA cores are active at 606MHz. This shows slight inefficiency when compared to AMD’s APU processors that are also made with 40nm technology. AMD’s APU processors have two processing cores and 80 stream processors inside, requiring 18Watts of power.

Unfortunately there aren’t any benchmark results available for the nVidia Geforce 410M video card. It was used in very few laptop models and users most likely didn’t focus on games, for obvious reasons. It was quickly replaced by nVidia Geforce GT 520M video cards, also supporting DirectX 11 and all other features of the Geforce 410M. On the other hand the new Geforce GT 520M video card has 48 CUDA cores active at 740/1480MHz and the memory bus works at 800-900MHz on 128bits, enabling the graphics processor to use relatively high speed DDR3 or GDDR5 memory.

The power consumption is a bit higher, as it requires 17Watts under full load, but it delivers an acceptable 3D performance in most new games (at the time of writing). According to the same notebookcheck.net, the Geforce GT 520M video cards reach 5018 points in 3DMark06, just a bit less than what integrated Radeons in upcoming AMD Liano processors have to offer, around 6000 points.

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