NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 539 vs 395
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 150 vs 82
Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 2505
Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 2505

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 2 February 2010
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	539 vs 395
PassMark - G2D Mark	150 vs 82
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359 vs 2505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359 vs 2505

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Around 2% better floating-point performance: 257.28 gflops vs 253.4 gflops

Floating-point performance	257.28 gflops vs 253.4 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

539

395

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

150

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3359

2505

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3359

2505

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	539	395
PassMark - G2D Mark	150	82
Geekbench - OpenCL	2396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	215.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	10.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	19.903
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359	2505
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359	2505
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G92
Launch date	22 March 2012	2 February 2010
Place in performance rating	1402	1405
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	253.4 gflops	257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	754 million
Core clock speed		500 MHz
Texture fill rate		17.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		175 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
DirectX 11.2	12 API
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3\GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus