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.

 

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 293
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