Tegra K1 vs GeForce GT 330 OEM

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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
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameGT215GK20A
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 February 2010 (14 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores96192
Core clock speed540 MHz756 MHz
Boost clock speedno data951 MHz
Number of transistors727 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt8 Watt
Texture fill rate17.287.608
Floating-point processing power0.2504 TFLOPS0.3652 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs328

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length175 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed790 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.28 GB/sno 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 HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3ES 3.1
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 8 Watt

Tegra K1 has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 837.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 330 OEM and Tegra K1. We've got no test results to judge.


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