GMA 950 vs GeForce GT 330M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1214not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.67no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Generation 3.5 (2005)
GPU code nameGT216Lakeport
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 May 2005 (19 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 cores48no data
Core clock speed625 MHz166 MHz
Number of transistors486 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt7 Watt
Texture fill rate10.000.66
Floating-point processing power0.06528 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops182no data
ROPs81
TMUs164

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 speedUp to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.28 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGADisplayPortNo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)9.0c
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL2.12.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 1 May 2005
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 7 Watt

GT 330M has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 950, on the other hand, has 228.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 330M and GMA 950. We've got no test results to judge.


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