NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 217 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 11 October 2004
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	217 vs 27

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 56 vs 43

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	56 vs 43

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
PassMark - G3D Mark	217	27
PassMark - G2D Mark	43	56
Geekbench - OpenCL	5251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1903

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Curie
Code name	GT216	C61
Launch date	10 January 2010	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	1577	1580
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
CUDA cores	48
Floating-point performance	121.44 gflops
Gigaflops	182
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	9.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	486 million
Core clock speed		425 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGADisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
SLI