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GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The GeForce GT 130 has core clock speeds of 500 MHz on the GPU, and 250 MHz on the 768 MB of DDR2 memory. It features 48 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 130 75 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 130 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 MB/sec
Difference: 167200 (1393%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is much (more or less 420%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 50400 (420%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the GeForce GT 130, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 23200 (290%)

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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GeForce GT 130

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 130 Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 10, 2009 June 2015
Code Name G94b Trinidad
Memory 768 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 500 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 500 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 12000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12000 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8000 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 1024
Texture Mapping Units 24 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 130

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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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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