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GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The GeForce GT 130 has a GPU core speed of 500 MHz, and the 768 MB of DDR2 RAM runs at 250 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 48 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 130 75 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Difference: 115 Watts (153%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 2G will be 1420% quicker than the GeForce GT 130 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 MB/sec
Difference: 170400 (1420%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be a lot (about 805%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130 12000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 96640 (805%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 2G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 23040 (288%)

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 R9 380 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 10, 2009 June 2015
Code Name G94b Antigua PRO
Memory 768 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 500 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 500 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 12000 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12000 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8000 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 1792
Texture Mapping Units 24 112
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million 5000 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 130

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Radeon R9 380 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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