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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5670 Mac Edition

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