GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs GT 650M Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking957not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.55no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGK107GT216
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 July 2012 (12 years ago)26 April 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 cores38448
Core clock speed900 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate28.808.000
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS0.1056 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3216

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 3.0 x16MXM-A (3.0)

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1254 MHz790 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.26 GB/s25.28 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.01.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 July 2012 26 April 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 23 Watt

GT 650M Mac Edition has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GT 330M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 95.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition and GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
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