Radeon HD 6330M vs GeForce FX 5700

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameNV36Robson
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 October 2003 (21 year ago)26 November 2010 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data80
Core clock speed425 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors82 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt7 Watt
Texture fill rate1.7004.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s12.8 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0a11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2003 26 November 2010
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 7 Watt

HD 6330M has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 225% more advanced lithography process, and 257.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5700 and Radeon HD 6330M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5700 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 6330M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
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