NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
7.5x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 200 MHz
8x more pipelines: 32 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 130 nm
48.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 146 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 1 November 2008
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	32 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	146 vs 3

Reasons to consider the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 70 vs 30

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	70 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

146

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
PassMark - G3D Mark	146	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	30	70
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2744

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	PowerVR SGX5
Code name	G96	GMA 500
Launch date	8 January 2009	1 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1514	1515
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	200 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	96 gflops
Gigaflops	144
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	32	4
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	314 million
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
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Memory bandwidth	16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	yes
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management	8.0