NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 9.2 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
  • Around 43% better floating-point performance: 121.44 gflops vs 84.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 217 vs 137
  • Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1903 vs 1465
  • Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1903 vs 1465
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 19 August 2008
Texture fill rate 9.2 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 48 vs 32
Floating-point performance 121.44 gflops vs 84.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 217 vs 137
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1903 vs 1465
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1903 vs 1465

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 57 vs 43
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 57 vs 43

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
217
137
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
43
57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1903
1465
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1903
1465
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 217 137
PassMark - G2D Mark 43 57
Geekbench - OpenCL 5251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1903 1465
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1903 1465

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT216 G96
Launch date 10 January 2010 19 August 2008
Place in performance rating 1577 1579
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

CUDA cores 48 32
Floating-point performance 121.44 gflops 84.8 gflops
Gigaflops 182
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 48 32
Texture fill rate 9.2 GTexel / s 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 486 million 314 million
Core clock speed 550 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGADisplayPort No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536 1920x1200
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0
Interface MXM-A (3.0) MXM-II
Laptop size medium sized medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 2.1 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
SLI
PCI-E 2.0