NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
• Around 31% better floating-point performance: 121.44 gflops vs 92.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
• 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 60 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
• Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 218 vs 170
• Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 42 vs 26
• 190.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1903 vs 10
• 190.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1903 vs 10

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

• Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 billion / sec vs 9.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	218 170
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	42 26
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1903 10
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1903 10

Compare specifications (specs)