NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

2x more texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 32% better floating-point performance: 105.6 gflops vs 80 gflops
Around 58% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	105.6 gflops vs 80 gflops
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
Around 35% lower typical power consumption: 17 Watt vs 23 Watt

Pipelines	80 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt vs 23 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition	ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View
PassMark - G2D Mark		352
PassMark - G3D Mark		170

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition	ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GT216	Cedar
Launch date	26 April 2010	1 April 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	480
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	105.6 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	80
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	17 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.28 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3