NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V8800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and ATI FirePro V8800 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V8800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

9x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 208 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 208 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V8800

Around 65% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 500 MHz
8.3x more texture fill rate: 66.0 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
33.3x more pipelines: 1600 vs 48
25x better floating-point performance: 2,640.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Core clock speed	825 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	66.0 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 48
Floating-point performance	2,640.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V8800

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition	ATI FirePro V8800
PassMark - G3D Mark		2281
PassMark - G2D Mark		445
Geekbench - OpenCL		36751
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.27
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1180.667
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		49.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		228.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition	ATI FirePro V8800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GT216	Cypress
Launch date	26 April 2010	7 April 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	722
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	825 MHz
Floating-point performance	105.6 gflops	2,640.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	1600
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	66.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	208 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.28 GB / s	147.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	4600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5