GeForce GT 330 OEM vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 330 OEM |
| 110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 XT . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 XT |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870 XT
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 330 OEM | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G92 () | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti LE) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 324 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 754 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 112 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 7 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 500 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 330 OEM | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 510 MHz
1020 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 330 OEM | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 185 watts |
| Release Date | 2 Feb 2010 | vs | 19 Nov 2012 |
GeForce GT 330 OEM
8.00 GP/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 330 OEM
28.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
88.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 330 OEM
16.30 GB/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 330 OEM
280.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2842.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better