GeForce GT 330M and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 330M

Radeon R9 290X2

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

N11P-GE1

Hawaii

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2010

June 2014

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

4x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

575 MHz

1000 MHz

CUDA cores

48

-

Floating-point performance

121.44 gflops

2x 5,632 gflops

Gigaflops

182

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

486 million

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

48

2816

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

580 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.200

176.0

Memory type

GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz

5400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

345.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGADisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.3

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

Power management

8.0

-