GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs 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)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGT216G96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)25 October 2008 (16 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 cores4832
Core clock speed625 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors486 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate10.008.000
Floating-point processing power0.06528 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
Gigaflops182no data
ROPs88
TMUs1616

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)MXM-II
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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.28 GB/s25.34 GB/s
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)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 25 October 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

GT 330M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 330M and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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