NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M
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The Nvidia GeForce GT 325M is a DirectX 10.1 capable middle class notebook graphics card. Technically it is a slower clocked GT 330M and similar to the GT 230M. The core clock of the chip is a bit below the GT 230M, but faster memory is supported. The power consumption should be a bit below the average GT 230M.
The performance of the GT 325M should be similar to the GeForce GT 230M and therefore located in the middle class. The card should support DirectX 10.1 and all the features of the GT 230M (as it is based on the same GT216 core). Therefore, PureVideo HD (with VP4?) and CUDA support should be in the chip.
As with the GT 230M, the performance depends on the used graphics memory. With slow DDR2, the card can be up to 20% slower than with faster memory.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
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The Nvidia GeForce GT 330M is the successor of the GT 230M and technically a faster clocked GT 240M (but it should still maintain the power envelope of the GT 230M as the naming suggests). Therefore, the GT330M is a mid-range laptop graphics card that offers DirectX 10.1 effects.
The performance of the GT 330M is similar to the GeForce GT 240M and therefore located in the range of the Mobility Radeon HD 4650. The card supports DirectX 10.1 and all the features of the GT 230M / 240M (as it is based on the same GT216 core). The modern ATI Radeon HD 5650 offers DirectX 11 effects and performs better.
Modern and demanding DirectX 10 and 11 games (like Crysis or Risen) can only be played fluently with medium detail settings and resolution settings. Less demanding games like Sims 3 run in high details and resolutions. See the gaming list below for detailed benchmarks.
The 48 shader cores of the GT216 are based on the desktop GTX 200 architecture and are therefore a bit improved compared to the 48 cores of the GeForce 9700M GTX. According to Nvidia, the micro architecture was improved regarding battery runtime and performance. The stream processors / shaders are 1-dimensional (1D) and can therefore not directly compared to the 5D shaders of current AMD / ATI cards like the Mobility Radeon HD 5650.
To use the calculation performance of the GeForce GT 330M for other applications, the card supports CUDA, OpenCL, and Direct Compute. For example encoding videos using the stream processors is considerably faster than using a fast CPU.
The GT330M supports the hardware decoding of HD videos using the integrated PureVideo HD engine. The integrated VP4 video processor is able to fully decode H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 ASP (e.g., DivX, xVID). Hardware decoding of MPEG-1 encoded videos is not supported, but this can be handled by every CPU without high load. In conjunction with an Core i5-520M, the GT 330M decoded H.264 with 1-6%, VC1 in 5-10%, and WMV with 3-9% CPU load (1080p over HDMI on a Sony Vaio Z11).
As with the GT 230M, the performance depends on the used graphics memory. With slow DDR2, the card can be up to 20% slower than with faster memory. Usually the GT 330M is paired with cheap and relatively fast DDR3 memory. GDDR3 would be a bit faster. GDDR5 is not supported according to Nvidia.
A low power version of the GT 330M is also available for laptop manufacturers featuring a minimal slower clock rate and less power consumption (Codename N11P-LP).
| NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M | NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M |
Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
GeForce GT 300M Series | | |
Codename | N11P-GV1 | N11P-GE1 |
Architecture | GT2xx | GT2xx |
Pipelines | 48 - unified | 48 - unified |
Core Speed | 450 MHz | 575 MHz |
Shader Speed | 990 MHz | 1265 MHz |
Memory Speed | 1066 MHz | 1066 MHz |
Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory Type | GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3 | GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3 |
Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
Shared Memory | no | no |
DirectX | DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1 | DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1 |
technology | 40 nm | 40 nm |
Features | DirectX Compute Support (Windows 7), CUDA, OpenCL, HybridPower, PhysX | DirectX Compute Support (Windows 7), CUDA, OpenCL, HybridPower, PhysX |
Notebook Size | medium sized | medium sized |
Date of Announcement | 10.01.2010 | 10.01.2010 |
Information | 142 Gigaflops | 182 Gigaflops calculation power |
Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_gef... | http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_gef... |
Transistors | | 486 Million |
Benchmarks
min: 2157 avg: 2165 median: 2161 (2%) max: 2178 Points
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 2159 avg: 2496 median: 2657.5 (3%) max: 2800 Points
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
min: 1742 avg: 1753 median: 1749 (2%) max: 1768 Points
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 1738 avg: 2039 median: 2134 (2%) max: 2244 Points
3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
min: 21859 avg: 26741 median: 26029.5 (27%) max: 32183 Points
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 13916 avg: 14930 median: 15232.5 (8%) max: 15340 Points
min: 16182 avg: 18198 median: 18934 (10%) max: 19604 Points
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 9933 avg: 10461 median: 10574 (15%) max: 10617 Points
min: 11076 avg: 12591 median: 12982.5 (19%) max: 13457 Points
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M min: 5333 avg: 5550 median: 5373 (10%) max: 5943 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 5382 avg: 6063 median: 6232 (12%) max: 6574 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x768 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M min: 5936 avg: 5985 median: 5984.5 (11%) max: 6033 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x768 |
Asus N61JV-JX012 | 350M | 4096 | 450 / MHz | 1024MB | 5936 |
Asus N61J-X2  | 430M | | | | 6033 |
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x768 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 6247 avg: 6654 median: 6677 (12%) max: 7013 Points
3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 6243 avg: 7064 median: 7285 (14%) max: 7553
3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings |
Toshiba Qosmio F60-10U  | 430M | 8192 | 475 / MHz | 1024MB | 6243 |
| 720QM | 8096 | | 1024MB | 6575 |
Samsung R580 Aura Hawk  | 520M | 4096 | | 1024MB | 7160 |
Samsung Q530-JT01PL | 450M | 4096 | 575 / MHz | 1024MB | 7410 |
Samsung R590-JS01  | 450M | 4096 | 575 / MHz | 1024MB | 7442 |
Samsung R580-JS05  | 620M | 4096 | 575 / MHz | 1024MB | 7553 |
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x800 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 7121 avg: 7130 median: 7129.5 (13%) max: 7138 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x720 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 7355 avg: 7357 median: 7356.5 (14%) max: 7358 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x720 |
Samsung R580-JS03PL | 430M | 4096 | 575 / MHz | 1024MB | 7355 |
Samsung R780 | 430M | 4096 | 575 / MHz | 1024MB | 7358 |
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - 3dsmax
min: 6.04 avg: 6.6 median: 6.6 (14%) max: 7.07
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - Catia
min: 4.79 avg: 6.1 median: 6.1 (13%) max: 7.44
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - EnSight
13.5 (28%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - Maya
min: 19.71 avg: 20.4 median: 20.4 (11%) max: 21.06
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - Pro/Engeneer
min: 7.31 avg: 7.8 median: 7.8 (15%) max: 8.34
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SolidWorks
min: 12.03 avg: 13.6 median: 13.6 (20%) max: 15.13
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - UGS Teamcenter
min: 2.93 avg: 3.1 median: 3.1 (8%) max: 3.18
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - UGS NX
3.8 (8%)
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics
min: 5 avg: 5.5 median: 5.2 (66%) max: 6.3 Points
min: 4 avg: 6.1 median: 6.4 (81%) max: 6.5 Points
Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics
min: 4.3 avg: 4.6 median: 4.7 (59%) max: 4.8 Points
min: 4.6 avg: 6 median: 6.4 (81%) max: 6.5 Points
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 1903 avg: 3597 median: 3910 (18%) max: 4665
Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 2103 avg: 3416 median: 3409 (16%) max: 4250
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 13.7 avg: 13.9 median: 13.8 (6%) max: 14.35 fps
Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M min: 13.24 avg: 15.3 median: 15.5 (7%) max: 17.51 fps
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M → 100% n=10
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M → 118% n=10
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
GeForce GT 330M:
58.7 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
29.6 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
35.5 fps [X] MSI FX600-i5447W7PIntel Core i5-450M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 325M
fps
90%
GeForce GT 330M:
23.1 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
33 36.4 fps 36.6 fps [X] Medion P7615Intel Core i3-330M 2.1GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 32 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
24.4 fps [X] MSI FX600-i5447W7PIntel Core i5-450M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 325M
fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
45.9 fps
118%
GeForce GT 330M:
49.7 fps [X] Sony Vaio VPCZ12Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
51 52 52 57 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
59.5 fps [X] Medion P7615Intel Core i3-330M 2.1GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 54 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
25.4 fps
106%
GeForce GT 330M:
23 25 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
26 fps [X] Sony Vaio VPCZ12Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
27 28 32.1 fps [X] Medion P7615Intel Core i3-330M 2.1GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 27 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
17.2 fps
116%
GeForce GT 330M:
17.3 fps [X] Sony Vaio VPCZ12Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
20 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
20 21.4 fps [X] Medion P7615Intel Core i3-330M 2.1GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 20 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
9 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
11 ~ 10 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
58.7 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
31.8 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
26.8 fps
112%
GeForce GT 330M:
27 30 30.5 fps 33 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 30 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
51.5 fps
111%
GeForce GT 330M:
41 47 56.6 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
58.8 70.5 71 ~ 57 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
35 fps
74%
GeForce GT 330M:
23 25.7 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
26.3 27.7 28 28 ~ 26 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
25.7 fps
74%
GeForce GT 330M:
16.8 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
17.5 17.7 21.2 22 ~ 19 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
11.9 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
52.4 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
33.2 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
38 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 36 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
20.4 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
27 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 24 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
11.3 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
14 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 13 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
61.1 62.6 68.9 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
79 80.4 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
85 98.4 ~ 76 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
33 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
42 42.6 43.4 47.4 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
48 50 ~ 44 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
28 29.1 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
32.3 ~ 30 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
12.5 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E/XIntel Core i7-640M 2.8GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
89.6 fps [X] MSI FX600-i5447W7PIntel Core i5-450M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 325M
fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
18.4 fps [X] MSI FX600-i5447W7PIntel Core i5-450M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 325M
fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
71.6 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
20 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
28.3 29 ~ 29 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
225 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
61.3 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
23.7 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
151 189 ~ 170 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
35 36 ~ 36 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
22.1 30.9 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 27 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
53.5 [X] Samsung R580-JS03PLIntel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
GeForce GT 330M
53.8 [X] Sony Vaio F11M1E/HIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
89.9 116.2 117 ~ 86 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
26.4 fps
148%
GeForce GT 330M:
34.6 [X] Sony Vaio F11M1E/HIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
37.5 [X] Samsung R580-JS03PLIntel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
GeForce GT 330M
39.3 40 40.4 41 ~ 39 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
17.8 fps
129%
GeForce GT 330M:
20.1 21.2 [X] Sony Vaio F11M1E/HIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
22.1 23 23.1 [X] Samsung R580-JS03PLIntel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
GeForce GT 330M
26.8 ~ 23 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
56.4 [X] Samsung R580-JS03PLIntel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
GeForce GT 330M
56.5 [X] Sony Vaio F11M1E/HIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
90.6 93 94 ~ 78 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
25.9 fps
143%
GeForce GT 330M:
32.4 [X] Sony Vaio F11M1E/HIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
34.2 [X] Samsung R580-JS03PLIntel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
GeForce GT 330M
38 38 38.2 42.8 ~ 37 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
16.3 fps
123%
GeForce GT 330M:
18.4 19.1 [X] Sony Vaio F11M1E/HIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
20.1 20.2 21 21.1 [X] Samsung R580-JS03PLIntel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
GeForce GT 330M
~ 20 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
83 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
40 50 ~ 45 fps
129%
GeForce GT 330M:
55 [X] Samsung R580 Aura Hawk 
Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
58 58 60 ~ 58 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
25 26 ~ 26 fps
112%
GeForce GT 330M:
28 29 [X] Samsung R580 Aura Hawk 
Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
29 31 ~ 29 fps
100%
GeForce GT 325M:
13.8 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
154.5 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
62 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
125 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
GeForce GT 330M:
204.4 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
203.1 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
180.6 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
140 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
140 ~ 140 fps
GeForce GT 330M:
532 [X] Sony Vaio VPC-Z11X9E/BIntel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
GeForce GT 330M
fps
Average Gaming NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M → 100%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
Average Gaming NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M → 116%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 121%
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