AMD Radeon HD 7650A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7650A and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7650A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7650A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
2.2x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 257.28 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 570 vs 395
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 286 vs 66

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 2 February 2010
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	480 vs 96
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops vs 257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	570 vs 395
PassMark - G2D Mark	286 vs 66

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2505 vs 700
3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2505 vs 700

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2505 vs 700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2505 vs 700

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7650A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

570

395

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

286

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

700

2505

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

700

2505

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7650A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	570	395
PassMark - G2D Mark	286	66
Geekbench - OpenCL	9507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.429
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	259.825
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.435
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.298
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	53.841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	621
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	700	2505
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	621
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	700	2505

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7650A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Onega	G92
Launch date	5 January 2012	2 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$262
Place in performance rating	1451	1453
Price now	$262
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	3.94
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops	257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	96
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		175 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3