NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +2073%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 300M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.28GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Neptune

N11P-GE1-A3

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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