NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4570

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4570 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4570

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

2.8x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 38% better floating-point performance: 144 gflops vs 104 gflops
Around 58% higher memory clock speed: 1584 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	144 gflops vs 104 gflops
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4570

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
3x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	80 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4570
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G94B	RV710
Launch date	12 December 2008	25 November 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	144 gflops	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	48	80
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	505 million	242 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	38.0 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2