NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

299% significantly better overall score

566 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

297% significantly higher Blender score

72.87 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9906 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10474 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10022 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10544 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9041 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1531 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1594 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

10 W

1350% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

158% significantly higher pixel rate

25.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

220% significantly higher texture rate

38.26 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

333% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

333% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

317th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce MX330 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the GeForce MX330 in gaming.

The GeForce MX330 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce MX330 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX330 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the GeForce MX330.