GeForce MX330 vs GTX 1050 Mobile
VS
Nvidia GeForce MX330
GP108
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
GP107 (N17P-G0)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce MX330 2 GB with 3 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month older GTX 1050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 5 pipelines and 640 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 58% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.9 vs 1.2 TFLOPS)
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 112.1 vs 56 GB/s
- Achieves 92% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (22K vs 11K)
- Has 67% more shading units (640 vs 384)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | - - - - |
26 13 12 - |
| The Witcher 3 | - - - - |
19 17 11 - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 28 13 11 - |
42 23 15 - |
| Far Cry 6 | 15 13 - - |
29 23 14 - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 14 - - - |
15 10 10 - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 24 22 13 10 |
26 24 13 11 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 11 - - - |
14 - - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 12 9 - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12 - - - |
24 21 13 - |
| 1080p High | 14 | 23 |
| 1080p Ultra | 9 | 16 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 11 |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1068 | 2092 |
| Fire Strike | 3287 | 6526 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2409 | 4262 |
| Night Raid | 15106 | 28118 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 29.1 img/sec | 54.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 14.1 img/sec | 25.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.43 Gpixels/sec | 0.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.62 Gpixels/sec | 1.31 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.65 Gpixels/sec | 1.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.12 Gpixels/sec | 0.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 37.8 Gpixels/sec | 70.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 1049.5 FPS | 2008.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 225 | 292 |
| DirectX 11 | 18 FPS | 35 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 12 FPS | 19 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 965 Ops/s | 1813 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 383 | 1251 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1006 | 1693 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 2266 | 3586 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 1558 | 2839 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 7914 | 14257 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 843 | 1087 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1011 | 1492 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 540 | 1531 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 2861 | 5281 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 17362 | 23251 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce MX330 and GTX 1050 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 10, 2020 | January 3, 2017 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Pascal | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | GP108 | GP107 (N17P-G0) |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 1135G7 or above | - Intel Core i5 8300H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (144th and 127th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 746-1531 MHz (configurable) | 1354 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 936-1594 MHz (configurable) | 1493 MHz |
| Shading Units | 384 | 640 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 24 | 40 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 16 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 3 | 5 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | No |
| L1 Cache | 48KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 512KB shared | 1024KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 15-26 GPixel/s | 24 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 22-38 GTexel/s | 60 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 10-30 W (configurable) | 55 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | 132 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 1.8 billion | 3.3 billion |
| Transistor Density | 24.32 MTr/mm² | 25 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 97°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1752 MHz | 1752 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 7000 Mbps | 7008 Mbps |
| Bus | 64-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | - | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | No | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4 | 1.4 |
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