NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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
Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock967MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition
0.106 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 870M
+2351%
2.599 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2010
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 300M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
941 MHz
-
Boost Clock
967 MHz
790 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
25.28GB/s
Bandwidth
120.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
1344
16
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
64 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
-
-
-
105.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.599 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
108.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
GK104
N11P-GE1-A3
GPU Variant
N15E-GT-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
