NVIDIA GeForce MX330 vs AMD Radeon E8950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX330 and AMD Radeon E8950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX330

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1531 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 1594 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 298.9x more texture fill rate: 38.26 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 9.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 95 Watt
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 vs 29 September 2015
Core clock speed 1531 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 1594 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 38.26 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 95 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

  • 5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1502 MHz (6008 MHz effective)
Pipelines 2048 vs 384
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1502 MHz (6008 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX330
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E8950

Name NVIDIA GeForce MX330 AMD Radeon E8950
Geekbench - OpenCL 10699
PassMark - G2D Mark 229
PassMark - G3D Mark 2434
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2784
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2784
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3808
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3808
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 326.391

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce MX330 AMD Radeon E8950

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 3.0
Code name GP108 Amethyst
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 29 September 2015
Place in performance rating 770 773
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1594 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1531 MHz 735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 38.26 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 19.13 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1,224 GFLOPS
Pipelines 384 2048
Pixel fill rate 25.50 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 38.26 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 95 Watt
Transistor count 1800 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 48.06 GB/s 192.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1502 MHz (6008 MHz effective) 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5