ATI FirePro V5800 DVI vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V5800 DVI and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI FirePro V5800 DVI

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V5800 DVI

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 690 MHz vs 500 MHz
3.5x more texture fill rate: 27.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
16.7x more pipelines: 800 vs 48
10.5x better floating-point performance: 1,104.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Core clock speed	690 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	27.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,104.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

3.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 74 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 74 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V5800 DVI	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Juniper	GT216
Launch date	26 April 2010	26 April 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$529
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	690 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,104.0 gflops	105.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	800	48
Texture fill rate	27.6 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	74 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	486 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	25.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3