AMD Radeon HD 6480G vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6480G and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6480G

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6480G

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
7.5x more pipelines: 240 vs 32
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 29
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 257 vs 145

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2011 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	240 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	81 vs 29
PassMark - G3D Mark	257 vs 145

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

3.4x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 444 MHz
Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2744 vs 1696
Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2744 vs 1696

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 444 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2744 vs 1696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2744 vs 1696

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6480G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

257

145

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1696

2744

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1696

2744

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6480G	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
Geekbench - OpenCL	673
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	592
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	592
PassMark - G2D Mark	81	29
PassMark - G3D Mark	257	145
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1696	2744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1696	2744

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6480G	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Tesla
Code name	Llano	G96
Launch date	15 June 2011	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1527	1530
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	444 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	240	32
Transistor count	1000 Million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Floating-point performance		96 gflops
Gigaflops		144
Texture fill rate		9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Shared memory	1	0
Memory bandwidth		16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Single Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
SLI options		2-way
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management		8.0