NVIDIA GeForce MX330 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce MX330

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX330 and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX330 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1594MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.06GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX330 +190%

1.224 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce MX330

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2020

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce MX

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1531 MHz

Base Clock

-

1594 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.06GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

38.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

19.13 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1224 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

38.26 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

M88

GP108-655-A1 (N17S-G3-A1)

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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