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GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

The GeForce GT 130 makes use of a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 500 MHz. The DDR2 RAM is set to run at a speed of 250 MHz on this specific model. It features 48 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240 30 Watts
GeForce GT 130 75 Watts
Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 240 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 MB/sec
Difference: 16800 (140%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 should be a lot (approximately 22%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2600 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 130 should be quite a bit (approximately 37%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GT 130 8000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2160 (37%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 130 Radeon R7 240
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 10, 2009 October 2013
Code Name G94b Oland PRO
Memory 768 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 500 MHz 730 MHz
Memory Speed 500 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 30 watts
Bandwidth 12000 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12000 Mtexels/sec 14600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8000 Mpixels/sec 5840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 320
Texture Mapping Units 24 20
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 130

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Radeon R7 240

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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