GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition vs Radeon R7 (Kaveri)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1032not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameKaveriGT216
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2014 (11 years ago)26 April 2010 (15 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 cores51248
Core clock speed553 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed686 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million486 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1056 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16
L2 Cacheno data64 KB

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
Interfaceno dataMXM-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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data790 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.28 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2014 26 April 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

R7 (Kaveri) has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

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