ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
2.3x more texture fill rate: 21.76 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
4.5x better floating-point performance: 435.2 gflops vs 96 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
3.2x more memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz

Launch date	16 September 2009 vs 8 January 2009
Texture fill rate	21.76 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 32
Floating-point performance	435.2 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

2.2x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 680 MHz
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 35 Watt

Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 680 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
PassMark - G3D Mark		145
PassMark - G2D Mark		29
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2744

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M96	G96
Launch date	16 September 2009	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	1527
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	1500 MHz
Floating-point performance	435.2 gflops	96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	320	32
Texture fill rate	21.76 GTexel / s	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Gigaflops		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Single Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.28 GB / s	16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management		8.0