NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9270

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition and AMD FireStream 9270 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

AMD FireStream 9270

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 160 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 160 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9270

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 600 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 30 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
16.7x more pipelines: 800 vs 48
8.3x better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 144 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1584 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	30 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,200.0 gflops vs 144 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1584 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9270

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition	AMD FireStream 9270
PassMark - G3D Mark		1341
PassMark - G2D Mark		473

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition	AMD FireStream 9270
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G94B	RV770
Launch date	12 December 2008	13 November 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	294
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	144 gflops	1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	48	800
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	30 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	160 Watt
Transistor count	505 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	38.0 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5