NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition
0.106 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+3184%
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2010
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 300M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
790 MHz
Memory Clock
1362 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.28GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
105.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
Amethyst
N11P-GE1-A3
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
5 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.3
