NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 13 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • 8.3x more pipelines: 400 vs 48
  • 4.9x better floating-point performance: 520.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
  • Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1590 MHz vs 1580 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 13 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 400 vs 48
Floating-point performance 520.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed 1590 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GT216 Madison
Launch date 26 April 2010 22 April 2010
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 105.6 gflops 520.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 400
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s 13 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 486 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16

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 25.44 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1580 MHz 1590 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3