AMD Radeon HD 7670M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7670M 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 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
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 472 vs 395
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 93 vs 82
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3341 vs 2505
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3341 vs 2505
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 February 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) 20 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 472 vs 395
PassMark - G2D Mark 93 vs 82
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 vs 2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 vs 2505

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

  • Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 17.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
472
395
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
93
82
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
2505
Name AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 472 395
PassMark - G2D Mark 93 82
Geekbench - OpenCL 1416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 210.901
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 2505
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 2505
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Thames G92
Launch date 17 February 2012 2 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $629.99
Place in performance rating 1403 1405
Price now $629.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 1.48

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) 20 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 PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
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 2 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, (GDDR5) GDDR3
Shared memory 0