NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M videocard review

GeForce GT 330M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 10 January 2010. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla 2.0 microarchitecture codenamed GT216.

Texture fill rate - 9.2 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 48. Floating-point performance - 121.44 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 486 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 23 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 25.6 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38582

217

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

Geekbench
OpenCL

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

345616

5251

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

1903 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

1903.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	217
PassMark - G2D Mark	43
Geekbench - OpenCL	5251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1903 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1903.000 Fps

Games performance

1. StarCraft 2 (2010)
2. Metro 2033 (2010)
3. GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)
4. Left 4 Dead (2008)
5. Trackmania Nations Forever (2008)
6. Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

7. Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)
8. Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
9. World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
10. Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)
11. World of Warcraft (2005)
12. Doom 3 (2004)
13. Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768	158.00
Medium, 1360x768	39.30
High, 1360x768	27.20
Ultra, 1920x1080	13.90

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600	34.70
Medium, 1360x768	23.20
High, 1600x900	10.00

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

Low, 800x600	45.56
Medium, 1024x768	31.89
High, 1280x1024	20.68

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Low, 640x480	98.00
High, 1024x768	66.00

Trackmania Nations Forever (2008)

Low, 640x480	225.00
High, 1024x768	61.30
Ultra, 1920x1080	23.70

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

Low, 800x600	170.00
Medium, 1024x768	60.00
High, 1280x1024	35.50

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

Low, 1024x768	38.60
Medium, 1024x768	27.50
High, 1024x768	26.50

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	89.90
Medium, 1024x768	39.64
High, 1024x768	22.54

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	58.00
High, 1024x768	29.00

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768

154.50

World of Warcraft (2005)

Low, 800x600	208.00
Medium, 1024x768	157.00
High, 1280x1024	42.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	204.40
Medium, 640x480	203.10
High, 800x600	180.60
Ultra, 1024x768	140.00

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

532.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT216
Launch date	10 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1577
Type	Laptop
Technical info
CUDA cores	48
Floating-point performance	121.44 gflops
Gigaflops	182
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	486 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGADisplayPort
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
SLI