Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics vs GeForce GT 330M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1214	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.67	no data
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Gen. 5 Arrandale (2010)
GPU code name	GT216	GMA HD
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	10 January 2010 (14 years ago)	10 January 2010 (14 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 cores	48	12
Core clock speed	625 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	486 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.00	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.06528 TFLOPS	no data
Gigaflops	182	no data
ROPs	8	no data
TMUs	16	no data

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 size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	Up to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	25.28 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGADisplayPort	no data
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Supported technologies

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

Power management

8.0

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	10
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	2.1	no data
OpenCL	1.1	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	40 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	35 Watt

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