NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M 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 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +918%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 300M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.28GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Granville

N11P-GE1-A3

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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