NVIDIA GeForce MX330 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX330 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 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

566 points

584 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

9 FPS

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

Identical

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.87 points

102.79 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9906 points

11144 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10474 points

11550 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10022 points

10627 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10544 points

11127 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9041 points

9592 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1531 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1594 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

56.06 GB/s

80.19 GB/s

43% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

10 W

650% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

25.5 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

38.26 Gigatexels/s

43.4 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

640

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

317th of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February

2015 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

4.6

GeForce MX330 vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 860M beats the GeForce MX330 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 significantly 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 860M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 860M over the GeForce MX330.