NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.28GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition
+171%
0.106 TFLOPS
GeForce 315M
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2010
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 300M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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790 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.28GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
6
SM Count
2
48
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
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-
-
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-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
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-
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105.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.78 GFLOPS
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-
Board Design
23W
TDP
14W
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-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
GT218
N11P-GE1-A3
GPU Variant
N11M-GE
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
